CELEX: 31972R2431
Language: en
Date: 1972-11-21
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2431/72 of the Council of 21 November 1972 fixing basic and buying-in prices for mandarins for the period extending from 16 November 1972 to 28 February 1973

56                              Official Journal of the European Communities
    23.11.72                        Official Journal of the European Communities                    No L 264/9
                          REGULATION (EEC) No 2431/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 21 November 1972
               fixing basic and buying-in prices for mandarins for the period extending from
                                       16 November 1972 to 28 February 1973
    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                       buying-in prices fixed for each one of these
    TIES,                                                     periods;
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the              Whereas when the basic price is being deter­
    European Economic Community;                               mined the surplus production areas which
                                                               must be taken into account pursuant to
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                 Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 are:
    No 1035/721 of 18 May 1972 on the common                  — in November: the Italian production area of
    organisation of the market in fruit and vege­                                the Province of Palermo ;
    tables, and in particular Article 16 ( 1) thereof;
                                                              — in December,
» Having regard to the proposal from the                          January and
   Commission;                                                    February:      the Italian production areas of
                                                                                 the Provinces of Palermo and
   Whereas the marketing of the mandarins
                                                                                 Syracuse;
   harvested in a given crop year covers the
   period from November to March of the
   following year;
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   Whereas, pursuant to Article 16 ( 1) second
   subparagraph of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72,
 ' the slack marketing periods at the beginning                                    Article 1
   and end of the crop year should be excluded;
   whereas the quantities marketed in the first               1.    For the period from 16 November 1972 to
   fifteen days of November and in the month                  February 1973 the basic and buying-in prices
   of March of the following year represent only              for mandarins, expressed in units of account
   a small percentage of the tonnage marketed                 per 100 kg net weight, shall be as follows:
   over the whole crop year; whereas , therefore,
   these periods should not be taken into account                              Basic Price     Buying-in pfice
   in determining the duration of the marketing
   year, which should thus be the period from                 November
   16 November to 28 February of the following                (from 16th to
   year;                                                      30th)                18-4             12-1
                                                              December             18-1             11-7
   Whereas Class I mandarins are sufficiently                 January              17-7             10-7
   representative for the whole of the marketing              February             15-7             10-0
   year; whereas that class should therefore be
   selected for the purposes of applying the                  2.    The prices set .out in paragraph 1 shall
   intervention system;                                       apply to Class I mandarins of the 54/64 mm
   Whereas, in order that the seasonal fluctuations           size-grade put up in packages.
   in the prices of mandarins should be taken into
   account, the marketing year should be sub­                                      Article 2
   divided into a number of periods with basic and
                                                              The prices set out in Article 1 ( 1) shall not
                                                              include the cost of the packages in which the
      OJ No L 118, 20.5.1972, p. 1.                           produce is put up.
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Where all or part of the cost of the packaging          shall relate to quotations which do not include
in which the produce is put up is included in           the cost of the packaging.
quotations for a product recorded on represen­
tative markets in accordance with the provisions
of Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72,
such quotations shall be reduced by the cost                                 Article 4
of the packaging included therein.
                       Article 3                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                        following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                        of the European Communities.
The information to be communicated pursuant
to Article 17 ( 1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
            Member States.
            Done at Brussels, 21 November 1972.  /
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                          The President
                                                                          P. LARDINOIS