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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2084/83

of 26 July 1983

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1332/83 fixing for the 1983/84 marketing year the Community offer price for lemons applicable with regard to Greece

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 10/81 of 1 January 1981 fixing in respect of fruit and vegetables, the general rules for implementing the 1979 Act of Accession (1), and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof,

Whereas Article 75 of the Act of Accession introduces a compensatory mechanism on import into the Community of Nine for fruit and vegetables coming from Greece for which an institutional price is fixed;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 75 (2) (a) of the Act of Accession, a Community offer price is to be calculated annually on the one hand, on the basis of the arithmetical average of producer prices of each Member State of the Community of Nine, increased by the transport and packaging costs borne by the products from the areas of production up to the representative centres of Community consumption and, on the other hand, taking into account the trend of production costs in the fruit and vegetables sector; whereas the said producer prices are to correspond to an average of the price quotations recorded over three years prior to fixing the Community offer price; whereas, however, the annual Community offer price may not exceed the level of the reference price applied vis-à-vis third countries;

Whereas, in order to take account of seasonal price variations, the marketing year should be split into several periods and a Community offer price fixed for each such period;

Whereas, by virtue of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 10/81, the rates used to calculate production prices are those recorded for an indigenous product whose trade characteristics are defined, on the representative market or markets within the production zones where the rates are lowest, for the products or varieties which represent a substantial proportion of marketable production throughout the year or during a part of the year and which correspond to quality category I and to set conditions in respect of packaging; whereas the average rate for each representative market is to be drawn up disregarding rates which may be considered excessively high or low compared with the normal fluctuations recorded on the said market;

Whereas application of the abovementioned criteria results in the adjustment, following the amendment of the reference prices for lemons, of the Community offer prices for lemons for the period 1 June 1983 to 31 May 1984 fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1332/83 (2);

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1332/83 is hereby replaced by the following:

'The Community offer price for the 1983/84 marketing year for fresh lemons falling within subheading 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff expressed in ECU per 100 kilograms net is hereby fixed as follows, for products of quality category I, graded according to size and packed:

June 32,35

July: 35,86

August: 37,29

September: 32,86

October: 28,46

November: 25,39

December 26,14

January: 27,52

February: 25,86

March: 26,42

April: 26,87

May: 29,52'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply as from 1 June 1983.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 July 1983.

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 291, 19. 11. 1979, p. 17.

(2) OJ No L 139, 28. 5. 1983, p. 19.