CELEX: 51991PC0199
Language: en
Date: 1991-05-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) FIXING THE BASIC PRICE AND THE BUYING-IN PRICE FOR TOMATOES FOR THE PERIOD 11 JUNE TO 16 JUNE 1991

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               COMVIISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES
                                                          C0M(91)199 final
                                                          Brussels, 24 May 1991
                                           Proposal for a
                                     COUNCIL, PEQUUTION (EEC)
                      fixing the basic price and the buying-in price for tomatoes
                                for the period 11 June to 16 June 1991
                                   (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
As the prices for the agricultural products and certain related measures
for the 1991/92 marketing year have not yet been decided by the Council,
the Commission proposes that the Council decide» for the period 27 May to
16 June 1991:
    to extend the marketing years for milk and beef/veal,
    to fix provisionally the buying-in and basic prices for cauliflowers,
    peaches, nectarines, apricots, lemons and tomatoes and the guide price
    for dried fodder in accordance with the Commission's proposals.
Those Regulations are to enter into force on 27 May 1991 In order to avoid
a legal vacuum.
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 ---pagebreak---                                     Proposal for
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No     /91
                                         Of
            fixing the basic price and the buying-In price for tomatoes
                       for the period 11 June to 16 June 1991
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, and in particular
Articles 89(1) and 234(2) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common
organization of the market in fruit and vegetables* 1 ), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 3920/90<2>, and in particular Article 16(1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 16(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, a basic price
and a buying-in price are to be fixed for each marketing year for each of the
products listed in Annex II to the said Regulation; whereas tomatoes harvested in
a given growing season are marketed from January to December of each year;
whereas, however, in accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 16(1) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, no basic price or buying-in price should be fixed
during the slack marketing period at the beginning of the marketing year;
(1) 0J No L 118, 20.5.1972, p. 1.
(2) 0J No L 375, 31.12.1990, p. 17.
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Whereas, in order to ensure that intervention Is possible for tomatoes from
11 June 1991, It is necessary to fix the basic price and the buying-in price for
this product for the period 11 June to 16 June 1991, pending a decision for the
1991/92 marketing year;
Whereas the application of Articles 148(1) and 285(1) of the Act of Accession to
Spain and Portugal respectively results in price levels differing from those of
the common prices; whereas, pursuant to Articles 149 and 285 of the said Act, the
Spanish and Portuguese prices should be aligned on the common prices at the
beginning of the marketing year; whereas the criteria laid down for that
alignment result in the basic price and the buying-in price applicable in those
two Member States being fixed at the levels given below,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                    Article 1
For the period 11 June to 16 June 1991, the basic price and the buying-in price
for tomatoes, expressed in ecus per 100 kilograms net, shall be as follows:
    basic price: 17,63 in Spain, 23,99 in Portugal and 28,41 in the
                 other Member States,
    buying-in price: 6,70 in Spain, 9,12 in Portugal and 10,80 in
                     the other Member States.
These prices refer to packed "round" and "ribbed" tomatoes of quality class I,
size 57 to 67 millimetres.
These prices do not take account of the cost of the packaging in which the
product is put up.
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                                    Article Z
This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 June 1991.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States.
Done at                                          For the Council
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