31977R1047

No L 125/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 5. 7

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1047/ 77

of 18 May 1977

fixing for the 1977 marketing year the reference prices for cherries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas producer prices are to correspond to th COMMUNITIES, average of the prices recorded on the representativ market or markets situated in the production are; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European where prices are lowest, during the three years prior I Economic Community, the date on which the reference price is fixed, for Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No home-grown product with defined commercial chara< 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization teristics, being a product or variety representing of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last substantial proportion of the production markete amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in over the year or over part thereof and satisfying spec particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, fied requirements as regards market preparation whereas, when the average of prices recorded on eac Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation representative market is being calculated, prices whic (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the could be considered excessively high or excessive! whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of low in relation to normal price fluctuations on tha the marketing year ; market are to be disregarded ; Whereas cherries are produced in such quantities in Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulatio 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 1977 marketing year, the reference price fo for the period from 21 May up to and including 10 cherries (subheading 08.07 C of the Commo August ; Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 10 Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of a (EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are fixed on sizes, shall be as follows : the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in May (21 to 31 ) : 63.06 each Member State plus an amount representing the June : 56.32 costs of transporting Community products from the July : 51.72 production areas to Community marketing centres ; August (1 to 10) : 39.69 whereas 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 Ma 1977. ence price fixed for each of these periods ;

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

Done at Brussels, 18 May 1977.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) See page 1 of this Official Journal .