Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) fixing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, peaches, apricots, nectarines, lemons and tomatoes for June 1996
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Brussels, 24. 05. 1996 COM(96) 246 final Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) fixing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, peaches, apricots, nectarines, lemons and tomatoes for June 1996 (presented by the Commission) EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM Subject: Draft Council Regulation fixing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines, apricots, lemons and tomatoes for June 1996 Under Article 16(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, a basic price and a buying-in price must be fixed for each of the products listed in Annex II to that Regulation for each marketing year. Only slack marketing periods at the beginning and at the end of the marketing year are to be disregarded. The Council has not yet, however, decided on the basic and buying-in prices for the products in question for the 1996/97 marketing year and interim protective measures were adopted by the Commission by means of Regulation (EC) No. /96 to fix the prices for cauliflowers for the period 1 to 31 May 1996. In order to ensure continuity of prices and the possibility of intervention measures, pending a decision for the 1996/97 marketing year, the basic price and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines, apricots, lemons and tomatoes should be fixed for the period 1 to 30 June 1996. The financial consequences were taken into consideration in January in Volume II of the 1996/97 price package. 1 Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) f i x i ng t he b a s ic and b u y i n g - in p r i c es f or c a u l i f l o w e r s, p e a c h e s, a p r i c o t s, n e c t a r i n e s, lemons and tomatoes f or June 1996 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, apricots and grams net, shall be as follows : tomatoes, expressed in ecus per 100 kilo Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 the of 18 May 1972 on market in particular in Article 16 (1) thereof, the c o m m on organization of fruit and vegetables ('), and Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, •V a given crop year Whereas, in accordance with Article 16 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, a basic price and a buying-in price must be fixed for each product in Annex II to that Regu the products lation for each marketing year ; whereas harvested during are marketed from January to December of each year in the case of tomatoes, from May to August of each year in the case of apricots, from May to October of each year in the case oi peaches and nectarines, the following year in the case of cauliflowers and from J u ne the case of lemons ; to May of whereas, however, pursuant to the third subparagraph of Article 16 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, no basic or buying-in price need be fixed for the slack marketing periods at the beginning and end of the marketing year ; the following year in to April of from May Whereas, in order to ensure the continuity of prices for cauliflowers and the possibility of intervention as regards apricots, peaches and nectarines from 1 J u ne 199© and the basic and buying-in tomatoes from 11 J u ne 199ft prices for the products must be fixed for the period 1 to 30 J u ne 199^ pending a decision regarding the \99$/9f' marketing year, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 For the period 1 to 30 J u ne 1995, the basic and buying-in lemons, prices cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines, for Cauliflowers Peaches Nectarines Lemons Apricots Tomatoes : (11 to 20 June) (21 to 30 June) Buying-in price 30,02 33,81 25,78 2809 12^0 11,98 These prices refer respectively to : — packed trimmed cauliflowers of quality class -I, — packed peaches of the Amsden, Cardinal, Charles Ingouf, Dixired, Jeronimo, J. H. Hale, Merril Gemfree, Michelini, Red Haven, San Lorenzo, Springcrest and Springtime varieties of quality class I, size 61-67 m m, — packed nectarines of the Armking, Crimsongold, Early Sun Grand, Fantasia, Independence, May Grand, Nectared, Snow Queen and Stark Red Gold varieties of quality class I, size 61-67 m m, — packed lemons of quality class I, size 53-62 m m, — packed apricots of quality class I of a size over 30 m m, — packed 'round' and 'ribbed' tomatoes of quality class I, size 57-67 m m. Those prices do not include the cost of the packaging in which the product is presented. Article 2 (') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession and by Regulation (EQ No 3290/94 (OJ No L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105). This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 J u ne 199/ 3 ^ R e g u l a t i on shall be binding i„ its entirety and directly applicable in all Member Done at Brussels, i For the Council The President H- ISSN 0254-1475 COM(96) 246 final 03 nmnfeer : O&C0-96-254^e$C BBî$92-7§*Q*596-9 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg s