31977R1213

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1213/77 of 7 June 1977 fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for plums

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to COMMUNITIES, 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 teristics, being a product or variety representing a Economic Community, substantial proportion of the production marketed over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­ fied requirements as regards market preparation ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization representative market is being calculated, prices which of the market in fruit and vegetables ( !), as last could be considered excessively high or excessively amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, market are to be disregarded ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices, whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of the varieties imported from third countries of which the marketing year ; the entry prices are to be compared with the prices fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II respectively should be specified ; Whefreas plums are produced in such quantities in the Community that reference prices should be fixed for them ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, marketed from June to October ; whereas the quanti­ 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for the period from 1 1 June up to and including 20 October ;

Article 1 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in 1 . For the 1977 marketing year, the reference each Member State plus an amount representing the prices for plum (subheading 08.07 D of the Common costs of transporting Community products from the Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100 production areas to Community marketing centres ; kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all whereas the trend of average basic prices and sizes, shall be as follows for each of the groups of varie­ buying-in prices must also be taken into account ; ties : Group I Group II Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all — from 11 June to 31 July : 33*24 — comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­ — August : 31-84 25-95 cial value, these varieties should be classified in two — September : 27-39 21-51 groups ; — October (1 to 20) : — 20-32

Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ 2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1 ence price fixed for each of these periods ; shall be composed of the following varieties :

Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the average of the prices recorded on the representative Group I : market or markets situated in the production areas Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Precoce favourite, (!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p . 1 . Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue, (2) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p . 1 . Jefferson Gage, Liitzelsachser (early Liitzelsachsen

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quetsche), Anna Spath, Ersinger (early Ersingen ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­ quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early zwetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro, Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­ Reine Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple Pershore, heimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore Damsons. (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche. Group II : Amendments to the preceding subparagraph shall be Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge), adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in Gerstetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg). keeping with changes in the varieties imported from third countries. 3. The entry prices of imported products are to be compared : (a) with the prices fixed for Group I where the Article 2 imported products belong to varieties other than those shown in (b); (b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 June imported products belong to the following varie 19 77.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 June 1977.

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission