CELEX: 31978R1180
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1180/78 of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978 marketing year the reference price for tomatoes

1 . 6 . 78                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 145/43
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1180/78
                                                       of 31 May 1978
               fixing until the end of the 1978 marketing year the reference price for tomatoes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   market or markets situated in the production areas
COMMUNITIES,                                                     where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
                                                                 the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
Economic Community,                                              teristics, being a product or variety representing a
                                                                 substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                 over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
                                                                  fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
                                                                 whereas when the average of prices recorded on each
of the market in fruit and vegetables (J), as last
                                                                 representative market is being calculated, prices which
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 54/78 (2), and in             could be considered excessively high or excessively
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                  market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­
nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing           Whereas, up to 10 July, Community-produced toma­
year ;                                                            toes are grown mainly under glass ; whereas the refer­
                                                                  ence prices for this period of the marketing year must
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in               therefore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas
the Community that reference prices should be fixed               tomatoes imported from certain third countries during
for them ;                                                        the same period will have been grown in the open ;
                                                                 whereas, although such tomatoes may be classed in
Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year               Class I, their quality and price are not comparable
are marketed from January to December ; whereas for              with those of products grown under glass ; whereas
the present marketing year the reference prices have              the prices for tomatoes not grown under glass should
respectively been fixed until 31 May by Regulations               therefore be adjusted by a conversion factor ;
(EEC) No 585/78 (3), and (EEC) No 824/78 (4) ;
whereas the information now available allows these
                                                                  Whereas, from October to December inclusive, toma­
prices to be fixed up to the end of the marketing
                                                                  toes imported from certain third countries are culti­
year ; whereas the low quantities which are harvested
                                                                  vated under glass ; whereas a conversion factor should
during the last 10 days of December represent only a
                                                                  also be applied to the prices of these tomatoes to
small percentage of the tonnage which is marketed
throughout the marketing year ; whereas that period               make them comparable with the reference prices
should not therefore be taken into account ;                      which are during this period calculated on the basis of
                                                                  prices of Community products cultivated in the open ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on               Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in            Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
each Member State plus an amount representing the                 time limit set by its chairman,
costs of transporting Community products from
production areas to Community marketing centres ;
whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and
vegetables sector must also be taken into account ;
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                                          Article 1
average of the prices recorded on the representative
(») OJ   No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.                             1 . For the 1978 marketing year, the reference price
(J) OJ   No L 79, 23. 3. 1978, p. 28 .                            for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common
(4) OJ   No L 114, 26. 4. 1978, p. 7.                             Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
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kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all              tion of customs duties, be multiplied by a conver­
sizes, shall be as follows :                                     sion factor of 1.70 from 1 June to 10 July ;
— 1 June to 10 July :                            58.19       (b) the price for tomatoes produced under glass and
— 1 1 July to 31 August :                        19.72           imported from third countries shall, after deduc­
— September :                                    21.51           tion of customs duties, be multiplied by a conver­
— 1 October to 20 December :                     24-54           sion  factor  of  0-60  from   1   October    to  20
                                                                 December.
2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price :
                                                                                    Article 2
(a) the prices for tomatoes not produced under glass,
    imported from third countries, shall, after deduc­       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 31 May 1978 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President