31976R1156

19 . 5 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 130 / 31

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1156 / 76

of 18 May 1976

fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for cherries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the COMMUNITIES , average of the prices recorded on the representative market or markets situated in the production areas Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to Economic Community, the date on which the reference price is fixed , for a Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No home-gown product with defined commercial charac­ 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization teristics, being a product or variety representing a of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last substantial proportion of the production marketed amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 795/76 (2 ), and in over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­ particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, 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 cherries are produced in such quantities in Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation the Community that reference prices should be fixed are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ for them ; ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, Whereas cherries harvested during a given crop year are marketed from April to August ; whereas the quan­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tities harvested in April , during the first 20 days of May and the last 20 days of August are so small that there is no need to fix reference prices for these Article 1 periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only For the 1976 marketing year, the reference prices for for the period from 21 May up to and including 10 cherries (subheading 08.07 C of the Common August ; Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100 Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation kilogrammes net of packed products of Class I , of all ( EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal sizes, shall be as follows : to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each — May (21 to 31 ) : 60-63 Member State plus an amount representing the costs — June : 54-15 of transporting Community products from the produc­ — July : 49-74 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas — August (1 to 10): 38-16 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices must also be taken into account ; Article 2 Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 May ence price fixed for each of these periods ; 1976 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 18 May 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 . ( 2 ) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4 . 1976 , p . 6 .