CELEX: 31974R1242
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1242/74 of the Commission of 16 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for cherries for the 1974 marketing year

No L 134/36                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              17. 5. 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1242/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 16 May 1974
                       fixing the reference prices for cherries 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 cherries 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 cherries harvested during a given crop year
are marketed from April to August ; whereas the                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
quantities harvested in April and during the first 20
days of May are so small that there is no need to fix                                          Article 1
reference prices for that period ; whereas reference
prices should be fixed only for the period from 21                  For the 1974 marketing year, the reference prices
May to 1 0 August ;                                                 applicable to cherries (subheading No 08.07 C of the
                                                                    Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                   account per 100 kg net of packet 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                        21 to 31 May :                           49-1
of transporting Community products from the produc­                       June :                                   43-1
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                       July :                                   39-6
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices                     1 to 1 0 August :                       30-4
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 21 May
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
( i) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.