31978R0585
No L 79 / 28 23 . 3 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities
COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 585 / 78 of 22 March 1978 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of April 1978
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN substantial proportion of the production marketed COMMUNITIES , over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci fied requirements as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European representative market is being calculated, prices which Economic Community, could be considered excessively high or excessively low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that market are to be disregarded ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the markets in fruit and vegetables ('), as last Whereas, during the month of April, Community amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 034/77 (2 ), and in produced tomatoes are grown mainly under glass ; particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, whereas the reference price for this month must there fore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas toma toes imported from certain third countries will have Whereas pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation been grown in the open ; whereas, although such (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the tomatoes may be classed in Class I, their quality and whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of price are not comparable with those of products the marketing year ; grown under glass ; whereas the price for tomatoes not grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by a conversion factor ; Whereas tomatoes 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 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year are marketed from January to December ; whereas, for the present marketing year, on the information currently available it is not possible to fix reference prices beyond the month of April ; whereas the quanti HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ties harvested of January to March are so small that there is no need to fix reference prices for that period of the year ; whereas the reference price should there fore be fixed only for the month of April ; Article 1
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation 1 . For the month of April 1978 , the reference price (EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100 Member State plus an amount representing the costs kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all of transporting Community products from the produc sizes, shall be as follows : 103-07. tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices must also be taken into account ; 2. For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the prices for tomatoes, not produced under glass, imported from third countries shall , after deduction of Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion factor average of the prices recorded on the representative of 1 - 80 . market or markets situated in the production areas where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a Article 2 home-grown product with defined commercial charac teristics, being a product or variety representing a
(•) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April (2 ) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p . 1 . 1978 .
23 . 3 . 78 No L 79 /29 Official Journal of the European Communities
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels , 22 March 1978 .
For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President