31976R2755

13 . 11 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 312/37

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2755/76 of 11 November 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 marketing year the reference prices for sweet oranges

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN and buying-in prices and in the financial compensa­ COMMUNITIES, tion provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down special measures for improving the production and marketing Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of Community citrus fruit (3), as last amended by Regu­ Economic Community, lation (EEC) No 793/76 (<) ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas for the 1976/77 marketing year the financial 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization compensation provided for by Regulation (EEC) No of the market in fruit and vegetables (!), as last 2511 /69 has been increased, by comparison with the amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in preceding marketing year, by a percentage equal to particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, that used for increases in the basic and buying-in prices ; whereas the reference prices for the 1976/77 Whereas Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No marketing year should therefore be maintained at the levels fixed for the previous year ; 1035/72 provides that reference prices valid for the whole Community are to be fixed each year before the beginning of the marketing year ; Whereas for the purpose of calculating entry prices the varieties imported from third countries of which Whereas the importance of sweet orange production the entry prices are respectively to be compared with in the Community is such that a reference price must the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must be speci­ be fixed for that product ; fied ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties imported from third countries are not directly comparable, as regards their commercial value, with the Community Whereas the period during which oranges harvested variety groups ; whereas provision should therefore be during a given crop year are marketed extends from made to fix, by reference to their respective commer­ October to the following June ; whereas the quantity cial values, conversion factors to be applied for the put on the market during October and November and purpose of calculating the entry price to the prices for during the following May and June represents only a these varieties imported from third countries so as to small percentage of that marketed over the whole make them comparable with the Community variety marketing year ; whereas the reference price should groups ; therefore be fixed only for a period running from 1 December to 30 April of the following year ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Whereas, since the different varieties of sweet oranges ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, are not comparable as regards their commercial value, they should be classed in three groups ;

Whereas the solution best suited to the particular nature of the Community market for the product in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : question is to fix for each group a single reference price for the whole marketing year ;

Article 1 Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices for sweet oranges are, beginning with the 1975/76 1 . For the 1976/77 marketing year, the reference marketing year, to be fixed at a level equal to that of prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheading 08.02 A I the previous marketing year, adjusted as necessary by of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of a percentage not exceeding the difference between the account per 100 kilogrammes net and applicable to percentages representing respectively the variation Class I products of Groups I, II and III of all sizes, compared with the preceding marketing year in basic packed, shall be as follows :

(') 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. (4) OJ No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p. 1 .

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Group I : from 1 December to 31 March : 18-90, (c) in the case of varieties not specified in (a) or (b) : Group II : from 1 January to 30 April : 16-28, — for the month of December, with the price for Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 9-03. Group I, — for the period 1 January to 30 April, with the 2. The variety groups referred to in paragraph 1 price fixed for Group II. consist of the following varieties : Group I : Moro and Tarocco, 4. In calculating the entry prices as referred to in paragraph 3, the prices for products imported from Group II : Sanguinello, third countries shall, after deduction of customs Group III : Biondo comune. duties, be adjusted as follows : 3. The entry prices of imported products shall be — in the case of products as specified in paragraph 3 compared : (b), by the conversion factor 0-76, (a) in the case of the Moro and Tarocco varieties, with — in the case of products to which the first indent of the price fixed for Group I ; paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor 1-20, (b) in the case of the varieties Biondo comune (Blanca comuna, Blonde commune) Grano de Oro (Impe­ — in the case of products to which the second indent rial, Sucrena), Baladi, Pera, Macetera, Pineapple, of paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor Blood oval (Doblefina, Double fine), Portuguese 1-00 . Blood, Sanguina redonda (Entrefina), the Surinam varieties and the Ordinary Blood variety with the Article 2 exception of Navel Blood (Double fine improved, Washington Blood, Large Blood) and Maltese This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December Blood, with the price fixed for Group III ; 1976 .

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