31977R1050

No L 125/32 19 . 5 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1050/77 of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes until the end of the 1977 marketing year

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 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European home-grown product with defined commercial charac­ 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 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization fied requirements as regards market preparation ; 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 1034/77 (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, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 reference prices valid for the whole Commu­ nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing Whereas, up to 10 July, Community produced toma­ year ; toes are grown mainly under glass ; whereas the refer­ ence prices for this period of the marketing year must Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in therefore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas the Community that reference prices should be fixed tomatoes imported from certain third countries during for them ; the same period will have been grown in the open ; whereas although such tomatoes may be classed in Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year Class I, their quality and price are not comparable are marketed from January to December ; whereas for with those of products grown under glass ; whereas the present marketing year the reference prices have the prices for tomatoes not grown under glass should respectively been fixed up to 31 May by Regulations therefore be adjusted by a conversion factor ; (EEC) No 608/77 of 23 March 1977(3), and (EEC) No 859/77 of 27 April 1 977 (4) ; whereas the information now available allows these prices to be fixed up to the Whereas, from October to December inclusive, toma­ end of the marketing year ; whereas the low quantities toes imported from certain third countries are culti­ which are harvested during the last 10 days of vated under glass ; whereas a conversion factor should December represent only a small percentage of the also be applied to the prices of these tomatoes to tonnage which is marketed throughout the marketing make them comparable with the reference prices year ; whereas that period should not therefore be which are during this period calculated on the basis of taken into account ; prices of Community products cultivated in the open ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are fixed on Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation the bases of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ each Member State plus an amount representing the ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, costs of transporting Community products from production areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;

Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ ence price fixed for each of these periods ;

Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the Article 1 average of the prices recorded on the representative

(') OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . 1 . For the 1 977 marketing year, the reference price (2) OJ See page 1 of this Official Journal. (») OJ No L 76, 24. 3 . 1977, p. 22. for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common («) OJ No L 104, 28 . 4 . 1977, p. 30 . Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100

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kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all tion of customs duties, be multiplied, by a conver­ sizes, shall be as follows : sion factor of 1 -80 from 1 June to 10 July ; (b) the price for tomatoes produced under glass and — 1 June to 10 July : 55.23, imported from third countries shall, after deduc­ — 11 July to 31 August : 18.76, tion of customs duties, be multiplied by a conver­ — September : 20.46, sion factor of 0.55 from 1 October to 20 — 1 October to 20 December : 23.33 . December. 2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price : Article 2 (a) the prices for tomatoes not produced under glass, imported from third countries, shall, after deduc­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1977.

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