COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2572/97 of 15 December 1997 fixing, for the 1998 fishing year, the withdrawal and selling prices for fishery products listed in Annex I (A), (D) and (E) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 (Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organization of the market in fishery and aquaculture products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (2), and in particular Article 11 (3) and Article 13 thereof,

Whereas Article 11 (1) and Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 provide that the Community withdrawal and selling prices for each of the products listed respectively, in Annex I (A) and (D) and in Annex I (E) are to be fixed by applying the conversion factor for the product category concerned to an amount equal to at least 70 % but not more than 90 % of the relevant guide price;

Whereas changes in production and marketing structures in the Community make it necessary to alter the basis for calculating the withdrawal and the sale prices in the Community as compared with those of the preceding fishing year;

Whereas Article 11 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 provides that the withdrawal price may be multiplied by conversion factors in landing areas which are very distant from main centres of consumption in the Community;

Whereas the guide prices for the 1998 fishing year were fixed for all the products in question by Council Regulation (EC) No 2445/97 (3);

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The percentages of the guide price which are used as a basis for calculating the Community withdrawal and selling prices shall be as shown in Annex I for the products concerned.

Article 2

The conversion factors which are used for calculating the Community withdrawal and selling prices for the products listed, respectively, in Annex I (A) and (D) and in Annex I (E) of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92, shall be as shown in Annex II.

Article 3

The Community withdrawal and selling prices applicable for the 1998 fishing year and the products to which they refer, shall be as shown in Annex III.

Article 4

The withdrawal prices applicable for the 1998 fishing year in the landing areas which are very distant from the main centres of consumption in the Community and the products to which those prices relate, shall be as shown in Annex IV.

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 1997.

For the Commission

Emma BONINO

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 350, 31. 12. 1994, p. 15.

(3) OJ L 340, 11. 12. 1997, p. 3.

ANNEX I

Percentage of guide price used in calculating withdrawal or sale prices

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ANNEX II

Conversion factor of the products listed in Annex I (A), (D) and (E) to Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92

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(1) The freshness categories, sizes and presentations are those defined pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92.

ANNEX III

Withdrawal or sale price in the Community of the products listed in Annex I (A), (D) and (E) to Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92

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(1) The freshness categories, sizes and presentations are those defined pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92.

ANNEX IV

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