CELEX: 31973R1921
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1921/73 of the Commission of 16 July 1973 fixing the reference prices for lemons for the 1973/74 marketing year

18 . 7. 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 198/25
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1921 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 16 July 1973
                    fixing the reference prices for lemons for the 1973/74 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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            erable proportion of production marketed throughout
Economic Community ;                                             the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­
                                                                 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 which
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last              could be considered excessively high or excessively
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in               low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the
particular Article 27 (1 ) thereof ;                             market 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, in respect of the whole marketing
year ;                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas lemons are produced in such quantities in
                                                                                           Article 1
the Community that a reference price should be fixed
for them ;                                                       For the 1973/74 marketing year, the reference prices
Whereas lemons harvested during a crop year are                  applicable to lemons (subheading 08.02 C of the
marketed from June to May of the next year ; whereas             Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
reference prices should be fixed for the period from 1           account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class 1
June to 31 May of the next year ;                                of all sizes, shall be as follows :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                —    June                    23-3
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to            —    July                    24-5
 the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                  —    August                   24-9
Member State plus an amount representing the costs               —    September                22- 1
                                                                 — October                     19-4
 of transporting Community products from the produc­             — November                    17-6
 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas              — December                   18-1
 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
 should also be taken into account ;                              — January                    18-9
                                                                  — February                   18-5
 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the            — March                      1 9-0
 marketing year should be divided into several periods            — April                      19-7
 and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;          — May                        20-1
 Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the                                      Article 2
 averages of the prices recorded during the three years
 prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a         This Regulation shall enter into . force on the day
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­               following its publication in the Official Journal of
 teristics on the representative market or markets situ­          the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
  (i) OJ No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
  (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.