(1)

Article 28(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables (1) requires Member States to notify the Commission for each marketing day during each of the relevant marketing years of the prices recorded on their representative producer markets for certain products of defined commercial characteristics such as variety or type, class, size and packaging.

(2)

The Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 877/2004 (2) sets out a list of representative markets on which a substantial part of the national output of a given product is marketed throughout the marketing year or during one of the periods into which the year is divided.

(3)

By reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union on 1 January 2007, representative markets should be established for them.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 877/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly,

(a)

‘Sofia (BG)’ is added to the list of representative markets for the following products: ‘tomatoes’, ‘aubergines’, ‘watermelons’, ‘melons’, ‘apricots’, ‘peaches’, ‘table grapes’, ‘cerises’, ‘cucumbers’, ‘plums’ and ‘sweet peppers’;

(b)

‘Bucharest (RO)’ is added to the list of representative markets for the following products: ‘tomatoes’, ‘aubergines’, ‘water melons’, ‘apricots’, ‘apples’, ‘cerises’, ‘cucumbers’, ‘garlic’, ‘carrots’, ‘plums’, ‘sweet peppers’, ‘onions’ and ‘beans’.