No L 196/62 Official Journal of the European Communities 24. 7. 97 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1437/97 of 23 July 1997 fixing for the 1997/98 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers and the buying-in price to be applied by storage agencies for unprocessed dried figs, the amount of production aid for dried figs, and amending Regulation (EEC) No 626/85 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organization of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables ('), and in particular Articles 3 (3), 4 (9) and 9 (8) thereof, Whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/97 of 19 March 1997 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as regards the system of production aid for products processed from fruit and vegetables (%) fixes the dates of the marketing years; Whereas Articles 3 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 set the criteria for fixing the minimum price and the amount of the production aid respectively; Whereas Articles 1 and 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1709/84 of 19 June 1984 on minimum prices payable to producers and amounts of production aid for certain processed fruit and vegetables eligible for produc- tion aid (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2322/89 (%, define the categories of unprocessed dried figs and dried figs respectively for which the minimum price and the aid are fixed; whereas, therefore, the minimum price and production aid for the 1997/98 marketing year should be fixed; Whereas the criteria for fixing the price at which storage agencies but in dried figs are determined in Article 9 (2) (a) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96; whereas a single buying-in price equal to the minimum price reduced by S %, corresponding to category D as’defined in Part I of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1709/84 should be fixed; Whereas paragraph 3 of Article 2 of Commission Regula- tion (EEC) No 626/85 of 12 March 1985 on the purchas- ing, selling and storage of unprocessed dried grapes and () OJ No L 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 29. () OJ No L 78, 20. 3. 1997, p. 14. () O] No L 162, 20. 6. 1984, p. 8. () OJ No L 220, 27. 9. 1989, p. 58. figs by storage agencies (), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1363/95 (%), should be deleted since the provi- sions of that paragraph are now null and void; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Products processed from Fruit and Veget- ables, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 For the 1997/98 marketing year: (a) the minimum price referred to in Article 3 of Regula- tion (EC) No 2201/96 shall be ECU 80,496 per 100 kilograms net from the producer for unprocessed dried figs in category C; (b) the production aid referred to in Article 4 of that Regulation shall be ECU 27,986 per 100 kilograms net for dried figs in category C. Article 2 For the 1997/98 marketing year, the buying-in price referred to in Article 9 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be ECU 58,741 per 100 kilograms net. Article 3 Paragraph 3 of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 626/85 is hereby deleted. Article 4 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 July 1997. J No L 72, 13. 3. 1985, p. 7. J No L 132, 16. 6. 1995, p. 8.