CELEX: 31973R1397
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1397/73 of the Commission of 25 May 1973 fixing the reference prices for cherries for the 1973 marketing year

No L 139/ 14                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           26. 5 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1397/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 25 May 1973
                           fixing the reference prices for cherries for the 1973 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      periods and a reference price fixed for each of those
COMMUNITIES,                                                        periods ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                  Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to
pean Economic Community ;                                           the averages of the prices recorded during the three
                                                                    years prior to the date of fixing of the reference
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        price for a home-grown product with defined
1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                    commercial characteristics on the representative
zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last               market or markets situated in the production areas
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and                     where prices are lowest, for the products or varie­
in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                            ties which represent a considerable proportion of
                                                                    production marketed throughout the year or during
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)                 part of it, and which satisfy specified requirements
No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole                    as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the
                                                                     average of prices recorded on each representative
 Community are to be fixed each year, before the
                                                                    market is being calculated, prices which could be
beginning of the marketing year, in respect of the                  considered excessively high or excessively low in
whole marketing year ;
                                                                    relation to normal price fluctuations on the market
                                                                     should be disregarded ;
Whereas cherries are produced in such quantities in
the Community that a reference price should be                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
fixed for them ;                                                     tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                     Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
 Whereas cherries harvested during a given crop year
 are marketed from April to August ; whereas the                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
quantities harvested in April and during the first
 twenty days of May are so small that there is no                                              Article 1
 need to fix reference prices for that period ;
 whereas reference prices should be fixed only for the               For the 1973 marketing year, the reference prices
 period from 21 May to 10 August ;                                   applicable to cherries ( subheading 08.07 C of the
                                                                     Common Customs Tariff, expressed in units of
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                   account per 100 kg net of packet products of Class
                                                                     1 of all sizes, shall be as follows :
  (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal
 to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                              — 21 to 31 May              44-6
 Member State plus an amount representing the costs                                                         37-5
 of transporting Community products from the                                    — June
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;                              — July                      360
 whereas the trend of average basic prices and                                  — 1 to 10 August            27-6
 buying-in prices should also be taken into account ;
                                                                                               Article 2
 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account,                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 May
 the marketing year should be divided into several                   1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 May 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              François-Xavier ORTOLI
  (*) OJ No L 118, 20. 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
   (*) OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 147.