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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2517/83

of 7 September 1983

fixing for the 1983/84 marketing year the Community offer price for mandarins including tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids, with the exception of clementines, applicable as regards 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 Article 75 (2) (a) of the Act of Accession provides that a Community offer price is to be calculated annually on the basis, on the one hand, of the arithmetical average of producer prices in each Member State of the Community of Nine increased by the cost of packing the fruit and transporting it from the areas of production to the representative centres of Community consumption and, on the other hand, the trend of production costs in the fruit and vegetables sector; whereas these producer prices are to be the average of the price quotations recorded over the three years prior to the date of fixing the Community offer price; whereas the annual Community offer price may not, however, exceed the level of the reference price applied to imports from third countries, this Community offer price being reduced by 9 % at the time of the third move toward price alignment referred to in Article 59 of the Act;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 10/81, the prices taken for the calculation of producer prices shall be those recorded for a homegrown product with defined commercial characteristics on the representative market or markets situated in the production areas where prices are lowest, for the products or varieties which represent a considerable proportion of production marketed throughout the year or for part of it, which are of quality class I and which satisfy specified requirements as regards market preparation; whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each representative market is being calculated, prices which could be considered excessively high or excessively low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that market must be disregarded;

Whereas application of the abovementioned criteria results in the Community offer prices for mandarins including tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids, with the exception of clementines, for the period 1 November 1983 to 29 February 1984, being fixed at the level set out below;

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

For the 1983/84 marketing year, the Community offer price for fresh mandarins including tangerines and satsumas, Wilkings and other similar hybrids, with the exception of clementines falling within subheading 08.02 B II of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in ECU per 100 kilograms net of packed products of class I, of all sizes, shall, for the period 1 November to 29 February, be 21,72.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November 1983.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 September 1983.

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 1, 1. 1. 1981, p. 17.