CELEX: 31971R0173
Language: en
Date: 1971-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 173/71 of the Council of 26 January 1971 laying down general rules for determining the percentage of the guide price to be used to calculate the withdrawal price for certain fishery products

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    47
29.1.71                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 23 / 17
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 173/71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 26 January 1971
              laying down general rules for determining the percentage of the guide price to be used
                            to calculate the withdrawal price for certain fishery products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                     Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 is being fixed, the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                  following shall be taken into account :
European Economic Community ;                                 — the specific conditions under which the product
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      concerned is caught and, in particular, the
2142/701   of 20 October 1970 on the common                       economic importance of that product to the
organisation of the market in fishery products, and in            producer;
particular Article 10 (4) thereof;                            — the average range of price fluctuations recorded
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                on representative wholesale markets or in
                                                                  representative ports in relation to the average
Whereas the application of a withdrawal price, below              monthly price which reflects a normal situation
which    producer's   organisations    withdraw     their         on the same markets and in the same ports during
members' produce from the market, helps to stabilise              the last three fishing years, allowance being made
prices;                                                           for the influence of any factors which are
Whereas, for those products for which a guide price               extraneous to natural price formation mechanism;
is to be fixed, the withdrawal price must lie within          — the seasonal nature of production as shown by an
predetermined limits related to the guide price;                  examination of the situation on representative
Whereas the withdrawal price has a direct and                     markets or in representative ports over a
continual influence on the formation of prices on the             sufficiently representative period of time;
markets; whereas the characteristics peculiar to each         — the structure of supply and demand and, in
market, in particular the main factors influencing                particular, the conditions under which the market
price formation and the interaction of these factors,             can be kept regularly supplied.
must be taken into account when it is being fixed;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                       Article 2
                       Article 1
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
When the percentage of the guide price referred to in         day following its publication in the Official Journal
the second subparagraph of Article 10 (4) of                  of the European Communities.
             This Regulation Shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 26 January 1971 .
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                      M. COINTAT
1 OJ No L 236, 27.10.1970, p . 5 .