31977R0218

No L 30 / 6 Official Journal of the European Communities 2. 2 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 218 /77 of 1 February 1977 fixing the average world market price and the indicative yield for linseed for the 1976/77 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN hectare of seeds harvested from seed flax and fibre flax COMMUNITIES , in the main production areas ; whereas on the basis of those details the indicative yield for linseed should be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European that specified below ; Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 569/76 of 15 March 1976 laying down special are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ measures for linseed ('), and in particular Article 2 (4) ment Committee for Oils and Fats, thereof, Whereas an average world market price for linseed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : must be determined each year according to the criteria laid down in Council Regulation ( EEC) No Article 1 1774/76 of 20 July 1976 on special measures for For the 1976/77 marketing year, the average world linseed ( 2 ) ; market price for linseed shall be 23-121 units of Whereas Article 4 of Commission Regulation ( EEC) account per 100 kilograms. No 1799/76 of 22 July 1976 laying down detailed rules for the application of special measures in respect Article 2 of linseed (3) provides that the average price shall be the arithmetic mean of the world market prices as For the 1976/77 marketing year, the indicative yields referred to in that Article recorded each week over a for linseed shall be : representative period ; (a) for seed flax produced : Whereas the most representative period for the — in France and in Italy, 800 kilograms per marketing of Community linseed may be concluded hectare , to run from 20 September 1976 to 14 January 1977 ; — in the other Member States, at 1 318 kilograms whereas this is therefore the period to be taken into per hectare ; account ; (b) for fibre flax produced : Whereas the application of all these provisions produces the average world market price for linseed — in France and dew retted, 550 kilograms per hectare , specified below ; — in France and not dew retted, and in the other Whereas Article 2 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 569/76 Member States except for the Netherlands, provides that the subsidy is to be granted for a produc­ 1 031 kilograms per hectare, tion figure obtained by applying an indicative yield to the surface areas sown and harvested ; whereas that — in the Netherlands, 1 150 kilograms per hectare . yield must be determined by applying the criteria laid down in Regulations ( EEC) No 569 /76 and ( EEC) No 1774/ 76 ; Article 3 Whereas, in accordance with Article 17 ( 1 ) of Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day tion ( EEC) No 1799 / 76 , the producer Member States following its publication in the Official Journal of have given the Commission details of the yields per the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 1 February 1 977 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(>) OJ No L 67 , 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 29 . (') OJ No L 199 , 24 . 7 . 1976, p. 1 . ( 3 ) OJ No L 201 , 27 . 7 . 1976, p. 14 .