CELEX: 31974R1958
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1958/74 of the Commission of 25 July 1974 fixing the reference prices for pears for the 1974/75 marketing year

26. 7. 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 204/41
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1958/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 25 July 1974
                      fixing the reference prices for pears for the 1974/75 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  prior to the date on which the reference price is fixed,
COMMUNITIES,                                                    for a home-grown product with defined commercial
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           characteristics on the representative market or markets
Economic Community ;                                            situated in the production areas where prices are
                                                                lowest, for the products or varieties which represent a
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    considerable proportion of production marketed
1035/72 0 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                throughout the year or during part of it, and which
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last             satisfy specified requirements as regards market prepa­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in              ration ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                           on each representative market is being calculated,
Whereas under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No           prices which could be considered excessively high or
1035/72 there are to be fixed each year, before the             excessively low in relation to normal price fluctua­
beginning of the marketing year, reference prices               tions on the market are to be disregarded ;
valid for the whole Community ;                                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas pears are produced in such quantities in the            are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Community that a reference price should be fixed for            ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
them ;
Whereas pears harvested during a given crop year are            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
marketed from June in that year to May of the
following year ; whereas the quantities marketed in
                                                                                          Article 1
June and in May of the following year are so small
that there is no need to fix reference prices for those         For the marketing year 1974/75 the reference prices
months ; whereas reference prices should therefore be           applicable to pears other than perry pears (subheading
fixed only for the period running from 1 July in one            ex 08.06 B II of the Common Customs Tariff),
year to 30 April in the following year ;                        expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation               packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall be as
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to           follows :
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                  — July                                              16-9
Member State plus an amount representing the costs              — August                                            14-1
of transporting Community products from the produc­             — September                                         14-0
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas            '— October                                           15-1
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices          — November                                          16-2
is also taken into account ;                                    — December                                          17-4
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account the            — January to April inclusive                        18-1
marketing year should be divided into a number of
                                                                                          Article 2
periods and a reference price fixed for each of those
periods ;                                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the            following its publication in the Official Journal of
averages of the prices recorded during the three years           the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 July 1974.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 118, 20. .5. 1972, p. 1 .
(A OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 147.