31976R1224

No L 137/ 18 26 . 5 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1224/76 of 25 May 1976 fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for plums

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 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 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 fied requirements as regards market preparation ; 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last representative market is being calculated, prices which amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (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, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices, the marketing year ; the varieties imported from third countries of which the entry prices are to be compared with the prices Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in the fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II Community that reference prices should be fixed for respectively should be specified ; them ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ marketed from June to October ; whereas the quanti­ ment Committee for Fruit and . Vegetables, ties harvested during the first 10 days of June and during the last 10 days of October are so small that there is no need to fix reference prices for these periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only for the period from 1 1 June up to and including 20 October ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member State plus an amount representing the costs of transporting Community products from the produc­ Article 1 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices must also be taken into account ; 1 . For the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the Common Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100 comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­ kilogrammes net of packed products of Class I, of all cial value, these varieties should be classified in two sizes, shall be as follows for each of the groups of varie­ ties : groups ;

Group I Group II Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the from 11 June to 31 July 31.96 year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ August 30.61 24.95 ence price fixed for each of these periods ; September 26.33 20.68 19.53 Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the October (1 to 20) average of the prices recorded on the representative

2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1 (!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . 2 OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6 . shall be composed of the following varieties :

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Group I : (b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the imported products belong to the following varie­ Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Precoce favourite, ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­ Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue, zwetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins, (Oullins Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützelsachsen Gage), Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, quetsche), Anna Spath, Ersinger (early Ersingen Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early Pershore (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche . Buhl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro, Reine Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple Pershore, Damsons . Amendments to the provisions of the preceding subpa­ ragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the proce­ Group II : dure in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetsche), keeping with changes in the varieties imported from Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth third countries . Gerstetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).

3. The entry prices of imported products are to be Article 2 compared : (a) with the prices fixed for Group I where the imported products belong to varieties other than This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June 1976 . those shown in (b) ;

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