CELEX: 31973R0500
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 500/73 of the Commission of 15 February 1973 fixing the reference prices for apples for the rest of the season 1972/73

No L 49/ 16                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            22. 2 . 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 500/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 15 February 1973
                               fixing the reference prices for pears for the rest of season 1972/73
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       whereas, under Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         No 1291/70, the prices to be used in determining
                                                                      those producer prices must relate to the 'ex-pro­
                                                                      ducers group' stage or to any other comparable
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    marketing stage ; whereas, under the first subpara­
pean Economic Community ;                                             graph of Article 24 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                      1035/72, the entry prices of imported products must
                                                                      be calculated at or converted to the ' import/
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          wholesale' stage ; whereas these prices are then
 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                     directly comparable with the arithmetic mean of the
zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                 producer prices and therefore do not need to be
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2 ), and                     increased by the amount referred to above ;
in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;
                                                                     "Whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                   1035 /72 provides that producer prices in each
 (EEC) No 1035/72 and to Article 1 ( 1 ) of Commis­                  Member State are to correspond to the average of
sion Regulation ( EEC) No 1291/70 (3 ) of 1 July                     the prices recorded during the three years prior to
 1970 laying down detailed rules for the application                 the date of fixing the reference price, on the repre­
of that Article, reference prices for the whole                       sentative market or markets situated in the produc­
Community are fixed each year before the begin­                      tion areas where prices are lowest ; whereas the
ning of the marketing year ; whereas for the present                 prices on which calculations are based, must, under
marketing year, however, since the Treaty (4 )                        Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70,
concerning the Accession of new Member States to                      relate to Class I products, of all sizes, packed, the
the European Economic Community and the Euro­                        packing costs being included in the price ;
pean Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels
on 22 January 1972, is to apply to this sector from
 1 February 1973 , reference prices for pears were
                                                                     Whereas Article 23 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
fixed up to 31 January 1973 only ; whereas these
                                                                      1035/72 further provides that only prices recorded
prices should therefore be fixed for the rest of the
                                                                     for products or varieties representing a considerable
marketing year, account being taken of conditions
                                                                     proportion of the production marketed for part of
of production in respect of the products in question                 the year or throughout the whole year shall be
in the new Member States ;                                           used :
Whereas pursuant to Article 57 of the Act annexed
to the aforesaid Treaty, prices in the new Member                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu­
States are to be reduced by the compensatory                         lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the
amounts ;                                                            Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
Whereas for a home-grown product with defined
commercial characteristics the reference price is
equal to the arithmetic mean of the producer prices
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in each Member State, plus an amount, based on
marketing costs, calculated with a view to enabling
the reference price and prices of imported products
to be compared at the same markeing stage :                                                  Article 1
                                                                     The reference prices for pears other than perry
(*) OJ No   L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             pears ( subheading ex 08.06 B II of the Common
(2) OJ No   L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 .
(3) OJ No   L 144, 2 . 7. 1970, p. 10.                               Custions Tariff), expressed in units of account per
(4) OJ No   L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .                             100 kg net, shall in resipect of variety Groups I, II
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and III, for Class I products of all sizes, packed, be                             Article 2
as follows :
February     )                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
March        >   15-0                                       following its publication in the Official Journal of
April        )                                              the European Communities . It shall apply until 31
May             —                                           May 1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 15 February 1973 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                   Fiancois-Xavier ORTOLI