CELEX: 31974R1364
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1364/74 of the Commission of 31 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for lemons for the 1974/75 marketing year

1 . 6. 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 147/45
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1364/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 31 May 1974
                    fixing the reference prices for lemons for the 1974/75 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,
COMMUNITIES,                                                       for the products or varieties which represent a consid­
                                                                   erable proportion of production marketed throughout
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­
Economic Community ;
                                                                   fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                 representative market is being calculated, prices could
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                be considered excessively high or excessively low in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                 relation to normal price fluctuations on the market
particular Article 27(1 ) thereof ;                                should be disregarded ;
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­               are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of            ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
the marketing year ;
Whereas lemons are produced in such quantities in                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the Community that a reference price should be fixed
for them ;                                                                                  Article 1
Whereas lemons harvested during a crop yeaj are                    For the 1974/75 marketing year, the reference prices
marketed from June to May of the next year ; whereas               applicable to fresh lemons (subheading ex 08.02 C of
reference prices should be fixed for the period from 1             the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
June to 31 May of the next year ;                                  account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                  of all sizes, shall be as follows :
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to                       june                                   25-9
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                             July                                    27-3
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                         August                                  27.7
of transporting Community products from the produc­                        September                               24-6
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                        October                                 21-7
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices                     November                                19-7
should also be taken into account ;                                        December                                20-2
Whereas to take seasonal , variations into account, the                    January                                 21 -1
marketing year should be divided into several periods                      February                                20-7
                                                                           March                                   21-2
and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;
                                                                           April                                   22
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the                       May                                     22-4
averages of the prices recorded during the three years
prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a                                    Article 2
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
teristics on the representative market or markets situ­            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1974.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 May 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.