CELEX: 31976R1225
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1225/76 of 25 May 1976 fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for table grapes

No L 137/20                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              26. 5 . 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1225/76
                                                         of 25 May 1976
                  fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for table grapes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
COMMUNITIES,                                                      year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
                                                                  ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
Economic Community,                                               average of the prices recorded on the representative
                                                                   market or markets situated in the production areas
                                                                  where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                  home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 teristics, being a product or variety representing a
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                 substantial proportion of the production marketed
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                              over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
                                                                   fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
                                                                  whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                representative market is being calculated, prices which
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                   could be considered excessively high or excessively
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of                low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
the marketing year ;                                               market are to be disregarded ;
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas table grapes are produced in such quantities               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
in the Community that reference prices should be                   ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
fixed for them ;
Whereas table grapes harvested during a given crop
year are marketed from May to April of the next year ;             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas the quantities harvested in May and June,
during the first 10 days of July and also January to
April of the next year are so small that there is no
need to fix reference prices for these periods ; whereas,                                 Article 1
due principally to developments in production tech­
niques,   a   relatively    important       increase  in   the
marketing of Community products during the last 10                 For the 1976 marketing year, the reference price for
days of November and in the month of December can                  table grapes (subheading 08.04 A I of the Common
be expected ; whereas, however, the figures presently              Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
available are insufficiently conclusive to justify fixing          kg net of packed products of Class, I, of all sizes, shall
                                                                   be as follows :
a reference price now for that period ; whereas refer­
ence prices should be fixed now only for the period
from 1 1 July up to and including 20 November ;                    — July (1 1 to 20)                                  32.62
                                                                              21 to 31                                 28.08
                                                                   — August                                            28.08
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                                                                       24.73'
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal              — September and October
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                  — November (1 to 20)                               25.17 .
Member State plus an amount representing the costs
of transporting Community products from the produc­
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices                                    Article 2
must also be taken into account ;
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 July
(2) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6.                                 1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 25 May 1976.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission