CELEX: 31973R3303
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3303/73 of the Commission of 6 December 1973 fixing the reference prices for sweet oranges for the 1973/74 marketing year

No L 338 /32                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             7. 12 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 3303/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 6 December 1973
                       fixing the reference prices for sweet oranges for the 1973/74 marketing year
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     question would be to fix for each group a single
  COMMUNITIES,                                                       reference price for the whole marketing year ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas the producer prices in each Member State ,
  Economic Community ;                                              correspond to the average of the prices recorded,
                                                                    during the three years prior to the date of fixing the
                                                                     reference price for an indigenous product under its
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        trade description, on the representative market or
 1035 /72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common                          markets situated in the production areas where
 organization of the market in fruit and vegetables,                prices are lowest, for products or varieties
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2),                representing a considerable proportion of the
 and in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                       production marketed for part of the year or
                                                                    throughout the whole year and satisfying given
                                                                    requirements as to packaging ; whereas for each
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)                 representative market the average of the prices must
No 1035 /72, reference prices for the whole Com­                    be established disregarding prices which appear
munity are to be fixed each year before the beginning               excessively high or low as compared with normal
 of the marketing year ;                                            fluctuations on that market ;
Whereas the importance of sweet orange production
in the Community is such that a reference price must                Whereas, for the purpose of calculating the entry
be fixed for that product ;                                         prices, the varieties imported from third countries of
                                                                    which the entry prices are respectively to be compared
                                                                     with the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must
Whereas the period during which oranges harvested                   be specified ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties
during a given crop year are marketed extends from                   imported from third countries are not directly
October to the following June ; whereas the quantity                 comparable, as regards their value in trade, with
put on the market during October and November                        Community groups of varieties ; whereas, therefore,
and during the following May and June represents                     on the basis of their respective trading values, •
only a small percentage of that marketed over the                    conversion factors should be fixed and applied, in
whole marketing year ; whereas the reference price                  calculating the entry price, to the prices for these
should therefore be fixed only for a period running                  varieties imported from third countries, so as to make
from 1 December to 30 April of the following year ;                 them comparable with Community groups of
                                                                     varieties ;
Whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC ) No 1035 /
72 provides that reference prices for oranges are to                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
be based on the arithmetic mean of producer prices                  are    in    accordance  with    the Opinion     of the
in each Member State, average fluctuations in basic                  Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
prices and purchasing prices also being taken into
account ;
Whereas, since the varieties of sweet oranges are not                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
comparable as regards their value in trade, they
should be classed in three groups ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the solution best suited to the particular
nature of the Community market for the product in
                                                                    1 . For the 1973 /74 marketing year, the reference
                                                                    prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheaiding ex 08.02 A
                                                                    I of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units
 (») OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(*) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 .                         of account per 100 kg net of each of the varieties
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of Groups I, II and III for Class I products, of all                Blood variety with the exception of Navel Blood
sizes, packed, shall be :                                            (Double fine improved, Washington Blood, Large
                                                                    Blood) and Maltese Blood ;
Group 1 : from 1 December to 31 March : 18 0
                                                               ( c) as regards varieties not listed under ( a) and (b ) :
Group 11 : from 1 January to 30 April : 15.5
                                                                    — for the month of December, with the price
Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 8.6                            for Group I,
2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph                 — for the period from 1 January to 30 April,
1 shall consist of the following varieties :                             with the price fixed for Group II.
Group I     : Moro and Tarocco                                 4.     In calculating the entry price referred to in
                                                               paragraph 3 , the prices for products imported from
Group II : Sanguinello                                         third countries shall, after deduction of customs
Group III : Biondo comune                                      duties, be adjusted :
                                                               — for products listed in paragraph 3 (b), by the
3.    The entry prices of imported products shall be                conversion factor 0.76 ;
compared :
                                                               — for products to which the first indent of paragraph
(a) with the price fixed for Group I, as regards the                3 ( c) applies, by the conversion factor 1.20 ;
    Moro and Tarocco varieties ;                               — for products to which the second indent of
                                                                    paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor
(b) with the price fixed for Group III, as regards                  1.00 .
    Biondo comune (Blanca comuna, Blonde com­
    mune), Grano de Oro (Imperial, Sucrena), Baladi ,                                     Article 2
     Pera, Macetera, Pineapple, Blood oval (Doblefina,
    Double fine), Portuguese Blood, Sanguina redonda           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
    (Entrefina) the Surinam varieties and the Ordinary         1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 6 December 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI