CELEX: 31974R1244
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1244/74 of the Commission of 16 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for peaches for the 1974 marketing year

17. 5 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 134/39
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1244/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 16 May 1974
                       fixing the reference prices for peaches for the 1974 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                      averages of the prices recorded during the three years
                                                                  prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
Economic Community ;                                              teristics on the representative market or markets situ­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,
1035/72 (! ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­               for the products or varieties which represent a consid­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last               erable proportion of production marketed throughout
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­
particular Article 27(1 ) thereof ;                               fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
                                                                  whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
Whereas, under Article 23(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No              representative market is being calculated, prices which
 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­             could be considered excessively high or excessively
nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of           low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the
the marketing year ;                                              market should be disregarded ;
Whereas peaches are produced in such quantities in                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
the Community that a reference price should be fixed              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
for them ;                                                        ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas peaches harvested during a given crop year
are marketed from May to October ; whereas the quan­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tities harvested in May and during the first 10 days of
June and for the month of October are so small that                                         Article 1
there is no need to fix reference prices for that
period ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only            For the marketing year 1974 the reference prices appli­
for the period from 11 June to 30 September ;                     cable to peaches (subheading No 08.07 B of the
                                                                  Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                 account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to             of all sizes, shall be as follows :
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                      June 11 to 20 :                          34-5
of transporting Community products from the produc­                     June 21 to 30 :                          31-3
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                     July :                                   27-4
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices                  August and September :                   25-9
should also be taken into account ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the
marketing year should be divided into several periods             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June
and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;           1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 16 May 1974.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(«) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.