CELEX: 31972R1159
Language: en
Date: 1972-06-02 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1159/72 of the Commission of 2 June 1972 fixing the reference prices for lemons

482                                 Official Journal of the European Communities
   No L 128 / 22                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                3.6.72
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1159/72 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 2 June 1972
                                            fixing the reference prices for lemons
  THE    COMMISSION       OF     THE    EUROPEAN        COM­       therefore directly comparable to the arithmetic mean
  MUNITIES,                                                        of producer prices ; whereas there is consequently no
                                                                   need to increase the latter by the amount referred to
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     above ;
  European Economic Community ;
                                                                   Whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      1035/72 provides that producer prices in each
  1035 /721 of 18 May 1972 on the common                           Member State must correspond to the average of
  organization of the market in fruit and vegetables,              quotations recorded during the three years preceding
  and in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof;                      the fixing of the reference price on the representative
                                                                   market or markets situated in the production areas
  Whereas Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  where prices are lowest; whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of
  1035 /72 and Article 1 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation            Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70 provides that the
  (EEC ) No 1291/702 of 1 July 1970 laying down                    quotations used for the purposes of this calculation
  detailed rules for the application of that Article               must relate to packed Class I products of all size
 provide that reference prices valid for the whole of              grades, the cost of the packing being included in the
  the Community must be fixed each year before the                quotations ; whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation
  beginning of the marketing year ;                                (EEC) No 1035/72 lays down that only quotations
                                                                  recorded for products or varieties which represent a
                                                                   considerable proportion of marketed production for
 Whereas, given the extent of lemon production
                                                                  part of the year or throughout the whole year should
 within the Community, a reference price must be                  be taken into account;
 fixed for that product;
                                                                  Whereas Article 23 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
 Whereas the reference price for a home-grown
 product, with given commercial specifications, is
                                                                   1035/72 provides that when the average of
 equal to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in
                                                                  quotations on each representative market is being
 each Member State, increased by an amount                         calculated quotations which seem excessively high or
 calculated on the basis of marketing costs with a                excessively low in relation to normal price
                                                                  fluctuations on that market must be excluded;
 view to enabling the reference price and prices of
 products imported from third countries to be
 compared at the same marketing stage ; whereas                   Whereas, in order to take seasonal fluctuations into
 Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70                  account, the marketing year should be subdivided
 provides that the quotations to be taken into                    into a number of periods and a reference price fixed
 consideration when producer prices are being                     for each of those periods ;
 determined must relate either to the 'ex producer
•group' marketing stage or to any other comparable                Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
 marketing stage ; whereas the first subparagraph of              Vegetables has not delivered an Opinion within the
 Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035 /72                   time limit set by its Chairman ;
 provides that entry prices for imported products must
 be     calculated    at,    or -   converted      to ,   the     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 import/wholesale stage ; whereas these prices are
                                                                                          Article 1'
 1 OJ No L 118 , 20.5.1972, p. 1 .                                The reference prices for lemons (subheading No
 - OJ No L 144, 2.7.1970, p . 10.                                 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed
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in units of account per 100 kg net are hereby fixed as                 February                           16-0
follows for packed Class I products of all size grades :               March                              16-5
          June                            20-8                         April                             17-2
          July                           22-0                          May                                17-6
          August                          22-4
          September                       19-6                                         Article 2
          October                         16-9
          November                        15-1                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
          December                        15-6
                                                              following its -publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                              European Communities. It shall apply until 31 May
          January                         16-4                1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 2 June 1972.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                    S. L. MANSHOLT