CELEX: 31974R1363
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1363/74 of the Commission of 31 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for table grapes for the 1974 marketing year

No L 147/44                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 6 . 74
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1363/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 31 May 1974
                   fixing the reference prices for table grapes 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 0 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 table grapes are produced in such quantities
in the Community that a reference price should be
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
fixed for them ;
                                                                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                   ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas table grapes harvested during a given crop
year are marketed from May to April of the next year ;             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas the quantities harvested in May and June,
during the first 10 days of July, the last 10 days of                                       Article 1
November and also December to April of the next
year are so small that there is no need to fix reference           For the 1974 marketing year, the reference prices
prices for that period ; whereas reference prices should           applicable to table grapes (subheading 08.04 A I of the
be fixed only for the period from 1 1 July to 20                   Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
 November ;                                                        account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I
                                                                   of all sizes, shall be as follows :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to                  — July 1 to 10                                  —
 the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                                  1 1 to 20                          28-5
 Member State plus an amount representing the costs                              21 to 31                           23-5
 of transporting Community products from the produc­                   — August                                     22-7
 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                   — September and October                       19-8
 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices                — November 1 to 20                           22-9
 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 July
 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, 31 May 1974.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
 (A OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.