No L 173/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 7. 86 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2024/86 of 30 June 1986 fixing the reference prices for hybrid maize and hybrid sorghum for sowing for the 1986/87 marketing year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 of 26 October 1971 on the common organization of the market in seeds ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1355/86 (3, and in particular Article 6 (5) thereof, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1355/86 has amended Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 by including hybrid sorghum for sowing among the products covered by the common organization of the market in seeds and making it subject to the reference price system for hybrid maize ; Whereas Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 provides that a reference price for each type of hybrid maize and hybrid sorghum for sowing is to be fixed annu- ally ; whereas those reference prices must be fixed on the basis of the free-at-frontier prices recorded during the last three marketing years except for abnormally low prices ; whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1578/72 of 20 July 1972 laying down general rules for fixing reference prices and for determining free- at-frontier offer prices for hybrid maize and hybrid sorghum for sowing (%), only prices for imports from third countries which are representative in terms of quantity and quality of the product should be taken into consideration ; Whereas imports of the types of hybrid maize for sowing falling within subheading 10.05 A IV ‘Other of the Common Customs Tariff may not be considered as repre- sentative on account of the very small quantity involved ; whereas no reference prices may therefore be fixed for those types of maize ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Seeds, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 For the 1986/87 marketing year, the reference prices for hybrid maize and hybrid sorghum for sowing falling - within subheadings 10.05 A 1, 10.05 A II, 10.05 A III and 10.07 C I of the Common Customs Tariff shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1986. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 30 June 1986. OJ No L 246, 5. 11. 1971, p. 1. O] No L 118, 7. 5. 1986, p. 1. OJ No L 168, 26. 7. 1972,.p. 1. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President