CELEX: 31974R1243
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1243/74 of the Commission of 16 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1974 marketing year

17. 5 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 134/37
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1243/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 16 May 1974
                      fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1974 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   erable proportion of production marketed throughout
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­
                                                                 fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
Economic Community ;                                             representative market is being calculated, prices which
                                                                 could be considered excessively high or excessively
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the
1035/72 ( !) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­              market should be disregarded ;
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in               Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
particular Article 27(1 ) thereof ;                              the varieties imported from third countries of which
                                                                 the entry prices are to be compared to the prices fixed
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No           for Group I and to those fixed for Group II respec­
1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­             tively should be specified ;
nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of
the marketing year ;                                             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in the             ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Community that a reference price should be fixed for
them ;
Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
marketed from June to October ; whereas the quanti­
ties harvested during the first 10 days of June and
during the last 10 days 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            1 . For the 1974 marketing year the reference prices
for the period from 1 1 June to 20 October ;                     for plums (subheading No 08.07 D of the Common
                                                                 Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                kg net of packed products of Class I and II of all sizes,
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to            shall be as follows for each of the groups of varieties :
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                                                 Group I       Group II
of transporting Community products from the produc­              from 1 1 June to 31 July :         26-0
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas              August :                           24-4           19-9
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices           September :                        21-0           16-5
should also be taken into account ;                              October (1 to 20) :                               15-6
Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all                2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1
comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­            shall be composed of the following varieties :
cial value, these varieties should be classified in two
groups ;                                                         Group I :
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the           Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Precoce favourite,
marketing year should be divided into several periods             Belle de Louvain , Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue,
and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;          Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützelsachsen
                                                                  quetsche), Anna Spath , Ersinger (early Ersingen
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the             quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early
 averages of the prices recorded during the three years           Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro,
 prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a         Reine   Claude,    Czar, Victorias,  Purple   Pershore,
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­                Damsons .
teristics on the representative market or markets situ­
ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,             Group II :
for the products or varieties which represent a consid
                                                                 Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge),
(») OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                            Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gert­
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.                         stetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).
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3 . The entry prices of imported products are to be           Amendments to the provisions of the preceding sub­
compared :                                                    paragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the
(a) to the prices fixed for Group I where the imported        procedure in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No
    products belong to varieties other than those             1035/72, in keeping with changes in the varieties
    shown in (b) ;                                            imported from third countries.
(b) to the prices fixed for Group II where the
    imported products belong to the following varie­
     ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­                                    Article 2
     zwetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage),
     Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­
     heimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore             This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 June
    (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche.                        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