CELEX: 31972R1184
Language: en
Date: 1972-06-06
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1184/72 of the Commission of 6 June 1972 fixing the conversion factors to be applied to the purchase price for lemons fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1175/72

Official Journal of the European Communities                                        491
No L 130/20                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                      7.6.72
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1184/72 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 5 May 1972
             fixing the conversion factors to be applied to the purchase price for lemons fixed by
                                        Council Regulation (EEC) No 1175/72
THE    COMMISSION       OF     THE  EUROPEAN      COM­         made in this case for these products to be purchased
MUNITIES,                                                      'packaging included' when the packaging is not
                                                               recovered for subsequent use; whereas however such
                                                               purchase should be effected only where the use of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;
                                                               such relatively expensive packaging is justified by the
                                                               commercial value of the products concerned;
                                                               whereas consequently the purchase of products
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   'packaging included' should be limited to products
1035/721 of 18 May 1972 on the common                          graded in the 'Extra' Class, Class I or Class II ;
organization of the market in fruit and vegetables,
and in particular Article 16 (4) thereof;
                                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                               are in accordance with the Opinion of the
Whereas, in Regulation (EEC) No 1175/722 the                   Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
Council fixed the basic price and the purchase price
of lemons for the period from 1 June 1972 to 31 May
1973 ; whereas those prices relate to packed Class I           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products of certain size grades ; whereas, pursuant to
Article 16 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72,                                          Article 1
conversion factors must be fixed for calculating the
prices at which products with different characteristics
are to be purchased ; whereas, as regards quality, it          The conversion factors referred to in Article 16 (4) of
follows from the provisions of the second                      Regulation (EEC) No 1035 /72 for quality class, size
subparagraph of Article 19 (2) of the Regulation               grade and type of packaging shall be as follows for
referred to above that conversion factors need only            lemons from 1 May 1972 :
be fixed for Classes II and III;
                                                                           'Quality class' conversion factor
Whereas the different conversion factors must be
fixed in relation to the prices recorded on the                         Quality class              Conversion factor
markets ;
                                                                              II                        0-9
Whereas, furthermore, the cost of the packaging in
which the product is presented is not taken into                             III                        0·45
account when the basic price and the purchase price
are being calculated ; whereas however products
covered by the intervention measures provided for in                         'Size grade' conversion factor
Articles 18 and 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
are liable to be put up in new packaging of the
                                                                         Size grade                Conversion factor
'non-returnable' type ; whereas, in order to encourage
the use of these products for one of the purposes
indicated in the first indent of Article 21 ( 1 ) (a) of           — 83 mm and over                      0-7
Regulation (EEC) No 1035 /72, provision should be                  — 62 mm/ 83 mm                        0-9
                                                                   — 53 mm/62 mm                         1-0
1 OJ No L 106 , 5.5.1972, p . 2.                                   — less than 53 mm                     0-9
2 OJ No L 130, 7.6.1972, p. 5.
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         'Type of packaging' conversion factor                 factors referred to in Article 1 , by a conversion factor
                                                               relating to that type of packaging if the products
                                                               are distributed in accordance with the first indent of
       Type of packaging            Conversion factor
                                                               Article 21 ( l ) .( a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
                                                               and the packaging is not recovered for further use.
     — packaged                           1-0
     — in bulk, in a means                                     The conversion factor referred to in the preceding
        of transport                     0-95                  subparagraph shall be so fixed that when it is applied
                                                               to the. purchase price multiplied by the other
                                                               coefficients the resultant increase in that price is 1*5
                                                               units of account per 100 kilogrammes net.
                         Article 2
Where, for lemons of the 'Extra' Class, Class I and                                       Article 3
Class II put up in new 'non-returnable' packaging,
the intervention operations provided for respectively          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
in Articles 18 and 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72           following its publication in the Official Journal of the
are effected 'packaging included', the purchase price          European Communities . It shall apply until 31 May
shall be multiplied , in addition to the conversion            1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 5 May 1972.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                      S. L. MANSHOLT