31978R1233

No L 153/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 9 . 6 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1233/78 of 8 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1978 marketing year

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 substantial proportion of the production marketed Economic Community, 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 1 1 54/78 (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 Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices, (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the the varieties imported from third countries of which whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of the entry prices are to be compared with the prices the marketing year ; fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II respectively should be specified ; Whereas 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 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only 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 1 . For the 1978 marketing year, the reference the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in prices for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the Common each Member State plus an amount representing the Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100 costs of transporting Community products from the kilograms net of packed products of Groups I and II, production areas to Community marketing centres ; of Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows for each of whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and the groups of varieties : vegetables sector must also be taken into account ; Group I Group II 34.99 Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all — from 11 June to 31 July : comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­ — August : 33-52 27.30 cial value, these varieties should be classified in two 28-82 22.62 — September : groups ; — October (1 to 20) : 21-36

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 I ence 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), Précoce favourite, (>) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 . Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue, (2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978 , p. 5. Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützelsachsen

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quetsche), Anna Spath , Ersinger (early Ersingen ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hausz­ quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early wetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage), Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro, Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­ Reine Claude , Czar, Vicorias, 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 imported products belong to varieties other than Article 2 those shown in (b) ; (b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June 1978 . imported products belong to the following varie

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

Done at Brussels, 8 June 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President