CELEX: 31972R2430
Language: en
Date: 1972-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2430/72 of the Council of 21 November 1972 fixing basic and buying-in prices for sweet oranges for the period extending from 1 December 1972 to 30 April 1973

54                            Official Journal of the European Communities
23.11.72        ,             Official Journal of the European Communities                     No L 264/7
                      REGULATION (EEC) No 2430/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                           of 21 November 1972
            fixing basic and buying-in prices for sweet oranges for the period extending
                                  from 1 December 1972 to 30 April 1973
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                    -— for the period from January to April, Class I
TIES ,                                                       oranges of the Sanguinello variety;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the            Whereas, to take seasonal fluctuations in orange
European Economic Community;                            prices into account, the marketing year should
                                                        be subdivided into a number of periods and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)               basic and buying-in prices fixed for each one of
No 1035/721 of 18 May 1972 on the common                these periods;
organisation of the market in fruit and vege­
tables, and in particular Articles 16 (1) and 35        Whereas when the basic price is being deter­
thereof;                                                 mined, the surplus production areas which
                                                         must be taken into account pursuant to Article
Having regard to the proposal from the                   16 (2) of Regulation (EfiC) No 1035/72 are:
Commission;
                                                        — in December
Whereas the marketing of oranges harvested in                and January: the Italian production areas of
a given crop year covers the period from                                    the Provinces of Catania and
October to June of the following year;                                      Syracuse,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 16 (1) second              — in February: the Italian production area of
subparagraph of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72,                                the Province of Syracuse,
the slack marketing periods at the beginning
and end of the crop year should be excluded;            — in March:         the Italian production areas of
whereas the quantities marketed in October                                  the Provinces of Catania and
and November and in May and June of the                                     Syracuse,
following year represent only a small per­               — in April:        the Italian production area of
centage of the tonnage marketed over the whole                              the Province of Catania; -
of the crop , year; whereas, therefore, these
months should not be taken into account in               Whereas , in order to take into account the
determining the duration of the market year,             conditions of production peculiar to certain
which should thus be the period from 1 Decem­            regions of the Community, by way of exception,
ber to 30 April of the following year;                   and pending the introduction of measures to
                                                         adapt cultivation techniques, the findings
Whereas orange production in the Community               provided for in Article 17 (1) of Regulation
includes several varieties; whereas different            (EEC) No 1035/72 should be permitted to
quotations, according to the different varieties,        apply to products belonging to other varieties
are recorded on the market; whereas, therefore,          more representative at regional level than the
for the purposes of applying the intervention            variety adopted for the whole of the Com­
system, a sufficiently representative variety            munity;
should be selected according to the different
periods; whereas the products listed below
fulfil this requirement:                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
— for December, Class I oranges of the Moro
    variety,                                                                  Article 1
                                                         1 . For the period from 1 December 1972 to
i  OJ No L 118, 20.5.1972, p. 1.                         30 April 1973 the basic and buying-in prices of
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sweet oranges, expressed in units of account                                  Article 3
per 100 kg net weight, shall be as follows:
                                                        During the months from January to April
                                                        inclusive, the findings referred to in Article 19 ( 1)
                   Basic price    Buying-in price       and (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 shall
December              15-9              10-9            also be carried out on the basis of quotations
January               13-3               9-2            recorded on representative markets for the
February              13-5               9-4            produce, for Class I oranges of the 60/76 mm
March                 15-0               9-6            size-grade, of the Common Biondo variety, put
April                 15-6               9-9            up in packages; in this case these prices, reduced
                                                        if necessary by the cost of the packages included
2.     The prices set out in paragraph 1 shall          in them, shall be subject to a coefficient of 2-5.
apply:
— for the month of December, to Class I                                       Article 4
    oranges of the 67/80 mm size-grade, of the
    Moro variety,                                       1.    The information to be communicated
— for the months from January to April                  pursuant to Article 17 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
    inclusive, to Class I oranges of the 67/80 mm       No 1035/72 shall relate to quotations, not
    size-grade, of the Sanguinello variety, put up      including the cost of packaging, recorded for
    in packages.                                        each of the varieties referred to in Article 1 (2)
                                                        and, if need be, for the variety referred to in
                                                        Article 3 .
                     Article 2
                                                        2 . If, for the months from January to April
                                                        inclusive, for a given representative market, the
The prices set out in Article 1 ( 1) shall not          prices communicated pursuant to paragraph 1
include the cost of the packages in which the           refer to several varieties, the price to be taken
produce is put up.                                      into account in. order to carry out the findings
                                                        provided for in Article 19 (1) and (3) of Regula­
Where all or part of the cost of the package in         tion (EEC) No 1035/72 shall be the lowest one.
which the produce is put up is included in
quotations for a product recorded on represen­
tative markets in accordance with the provisions                              Article 5
of Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72,
such quotations shall be reduced by the cost            This Regulation shall enter into force on
of the package included therein.                         1 December 1972.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
            Member States .
            Done at Brussels, 21 November 1972.
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                           P. LARDINOIS