31978R2655

14 . 11 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 320/5

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2655 /78

of 13 November 1978

fixing for the 1978 /79 marketing year the reference prices for sweet oranges

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No COMMUNITIES, 2511 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community citrus fruit (3), as last amended by Regu­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European lation (EEC) No 1 1 22/78 (4) ; Economic Community,

Whereas for the 1978/79 marketing year the financial Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No compensation provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization 2511 /69 has been increased, by comparison with the of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last preceding marketing year, by a percentage equal to amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1766/78 (2), and in that applied to the basic and buying-in prices ; particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, whereas the reference prices for the 1978/79 marketing year should therefore be maintained at the Whereas Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No levels fixed for the previous year ; 1035/72 provides that reference prices valid for the whole Community are to be fixed each year before the Whereas for the purpose of calculating entry prices beginning of the marketing year ; the varieties imported from third countries of which the entry prices are respectively to be compared with Whereas the importance of sweet orange production the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must be speci­ in the Community is such that a reference price must fied ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties imported be fixed for that product ; from third countries are not directly comparable, as 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 15 July of the following year ; whereas the purpose of calculating the entry price to the prices for quantity put on the market during October and these varieties imported from third countries so as to November and from 1 June to 15 July of the make them comparable with the Community variety following year represents only a small percentage of groups ; that marketed over the whole marketing year ; whereas the reference price should therefore be fixed only for a period running from 1 December to 31 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ May of the following year ; 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 Article 1 question is to fix for each group a single reference price for the whole marketing year ; 1 . For the 1978/79 marketing year, the reference prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheading 08.02 A I Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 23 of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices account per 100 kilograms net and applicable to Class for sweet oranges are, beginning with the 1975/76 I products of Groups I, II and III of all sizes, packed, marketing year, to be fixed at a level equal to that of shall be as follows : the previous marketing year, adjusted as necessary by a percentage not exceeding the difference between the — Group I : from 1 December to 31 March : 18-90, percentages representing respectively the variation — Group II : from 1 January to 31 May : 16-28, compared with the preceding marketing year in basic and buying-in prices and in the financial compensa­ — Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 9-03 .

0) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 204, 28 . 7. 1978, p. 12. (4) OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 13.

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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, — Group II : Sanguinello, 4. In calculating the entry prices as referred to in 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 3 (a) in the case of the Moro and Tarocco varieties, with (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 varieties and the Ordinary Blood variety with the 1.00 . exception of Navel 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 1978 . Group I,

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

Done at Brussels, 13 November 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President