CELEX: 31976R2756
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2756/76 of 11 November 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 marketing year the reference price for mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas), clementines, Wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids

13 . 11 . 76                         Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 312/39
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2756/76
                                                   of 11 November 1976
              fixing for the 1976/77 marketing year the reference price for mandarins
              (including tangerines and satsumas), Clementines, Wilkings and other similar
                                                       citrus hybrids
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   the preceding marketing year in basic and buying-in
COMMUNITIES,                                                      prices and in the financial compensation provided for
                                                                 by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511 /69 of 9
                                                                  December 1969 laying down special measures for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                               improving the production and marketing of Commu­
                                                                  nity citrus fruit (3), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 793/76 (4) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                Whereas for the 1976/77 marketing year the financial
of the market in fruit and vegetables (J), as last               compensation provided for by Regulation (EEC) No
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                2511 /69 has been increased, by comparison with the
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                              preceding marketing year, by a percentage equal to
                                                                 that used for increases in the basic and buying-in
Whereas Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                   prices ; whereas the reference prices for the 1976/77
 1035/72 provides that reference prices for the whole            marketing year should therefore be maintained at the
Community are to be fixed each year before the begin­            levels fixed for the previous year ;
ning of the marketing year ;
                                                                 Whereas only mandarins imported from third coun­
                                                                 tries are directly comparable, as regards their commer­
Whereas the importance of mandarin production in                 cial value, with Community products ; whereas for the
the Community is such that a reference price must be             other varieties and hybrids conversion factors should
fixed for that product, such price to be operative also          be determined according to their respective commer­
for tangerines, satsumas, Clementines, Wilkings and              cial values and applied, in calculating the entry price,
other similar citrus hybrids ;
                                                                 to the prices of such products imported from third
                                                                 countries ;
Whereas the period during which mandarins harv­
ested during a given crop year are marketed extends              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
from November to the following March ; whereas the               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
quantity put on the market during March represents               ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
only a small percentage of that marketed over the
whole marketing year ; whereas that month should
therefore be disregarded and the reference price fixed
for the period running from 1 November to 28
February of the following year ;                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the fixing of a single reference price valid for
the whole marketing year appears to be the solution                                        Article 1
most suited to the particular nature of the Community
market in the product in question ;                               1 . For the 1976/77 marketing year, the reference
                                                                 price for fresh mandarins (including tangerines and
Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 23             satsumas), Clementines, Wilkings and other similar
(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices             citrus hybrids of subheading ex 08.02 B of the
for mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas),               Common Customs Tariff, expressed in units of
Clementines, Wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids           account per 100 kilogrammes net of packed products
are, beginning with the 1975/76 marketing year, to be            of Quality Class I of all sizes, shall for the period 1
fixed at a level equal to that of the previous marketing         November to 28 February, be 19-74.
year, adjusted as necessary by a percentage not
exceeding the difference between the percentages                 2.     In calculating the entry price, the prices for
representing respectively the variation compared with            products imported from third countries other than
(') OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            (3) OJ No L 318, 18 . 12. 1969, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6.                              (<) OJ No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 1 .
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mandarins shall, after deduction of customs duties, be                             Article 2
adjusted by a conversion factor of :
— 0-75 for Clementines (excluding monreales),              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
— 100 for monreales, tangerines, satsumas, Wilkings         following its publication in the Official Journal of
    and other similar citrus hybrids.                       the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 11 November 1976 .
                                                               „     For the Commission
                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                 Member of the Commission