31977R2591

No L 301 / 18 25 . 11 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2591 /77 of 24 November 1977 fixing for the 1977/78 marketing year the reference prices for sweet oranges

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (EEC) No 2511 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down COMMUNITIES, special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas for the 1977/78 marketing year the financial compensation provided for by Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511 /69 has been increased, by comparison with the 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization preceding marketing year, by a percentage equal to of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last that applied to the basic and buying-in prices ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in whereas the reference prices for the 1977/78 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, marketing year should therefore be maintained at the levels fixed for the previous year ; Whereas Article 23(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that reference prices valid for the Whereas for the purpose of calculating entry prices whole Community are to be fixed each year before the the varieties imported from third countries of which beginning of the marketing year ; the entry prices are respectively to be compared with the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must be speci­ Whereas the importance of sweet orange production fied ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties imported in the Community is such that a reference price must from third countries are not directly comparable, as be fixed for that product ; regards their commercial value, with the Community variety groups ; whereas provision should therefore be Whereas the period during which oranges harvested made to fix, by reference to their respective commer­ during a given crop year are marketed extends from cial values, conversion factors to be applied for the October to the following June ; whereas the quantity purpose of calculating the entry price to the prices for put on the market during October and November and these varieties imported from third countries so as to during the following June represents only a small make them comparable with the Community variety percentage of that marketed over the whole marketing groups ; year ; whereas the reference price should therefore be fixed only for a period running from 1 December to Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 31 May of the following year ; are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, Whereas, since the different varieties of sweet oranges are not comparable as regards their commercial value, they should be classed in three groups ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the solution best suited to the particular nature of the Community market for the product in question is to fix for each group a single reference Article 1 price for the whole marketing year ;

Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 1 . For the 1977/78 marketing year, the reference 23(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheading 08.02 A I of prices for sweet oranges are, beginning with the the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of 1975/76 marketing year, to be fixed at a level equal to account per 100 kilograms net and applicable to Class that" of the previous marketing year, adjusted as neces­ I products of Groups I, II and III of all sizes, packed, shall be as follows : sary by a percentage not exceeding the difference between the percentages representing respectively the — Group I : from 1 December to 31 March : 18-90, variation compared with the preceding marketing year in basic and buying-in prices and in the financial — Group II : from 1 January to 31 May : 16-28, compensation provided for by Council Regulation — Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 9-03. (!) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 1 .

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2. The variety groups referred to in paragraph 1 — for the period 1 January to 31 May, with the consist of the following varieties : price fixed for Group II. — Group I : Moro and Tarocco, 4. In calculating the entry prices as referred to in — Group II : Sanguinello, paragraph 3, the prices for products imported from — Group III : Biondo comune. third countries shall, after deduction of customs 3. The entry prices of imported products shall be duties, be adjusted as follows : compared : — in the case of products as specified in paragraph (a) in the case of the Moro and Tarocco varieties, with 3 (b), by the conversion factor 0-76, the price fixed for Group I ; — in the case of products to which the first indent of (b) in the case of the varieties Biondo comune (Blanca paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor comuna, Blonde commune), Grano de Oro (Impe­ 1-20, rial, Sucrena), Baladi, Pera, Macetera, Pineapple, Blood oval (Doblefina, Double fine), Portuguese — in the case of products to which the second indent Blood, Sanguina redonda (Entrefina), the Surinam of paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor 100 . varieties and the Ordinary Blood variety with the exception of Naval Blood (Double fine improved, Washington Blood, Large Blood) and Maltese Blood, with the price fixed for Group III ; Article 2 (c) in the case of varieties not specified in (a) or (b) : — for the month of December, with the price for This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December 1977. Group I,

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

Done at Brussels, 24 November 1977.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President