CELEX: 31973R1616
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1616/73 of the Commission of 18 June 1973 fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1973 marketing year

No L 162/ 10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                19 . 6 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1616/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 18 June 1973
                         fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1973 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to
COMMUNITES,                                                        the averages of the prices recording during the three
                                                                   years prior to the date of fixing of the reference
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                price for a home-grown product with defined
pean Economic Community ;                                         commercial characteristics on the representative
                                                                  market or markets situated in the production areas
                                                                  where prices are lowest, for the products or var­
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                     ieties which represent a considerable proportion of
1035/72 i 1 ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­                production marketed throughout the year or during
zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last             part of it, and which satisfy specified requirements
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and                    as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the
in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                           average of prices recorded on each representative
                                                                   market is being calculated, prices which could be
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC )             considered excessively high or excessively low in rela­
 No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole                  tion to normal price fluctuations on the market
 Community are to be fixed each year, before the                   should be disregarded ;
 beginning of the marketing year, in respect of the
 whole marketing year ;                                            Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
                                                                  the varieties imported from third countries of which
                                                                  tile entry prices are to be compared to the prices
Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in                   fixed for Group I and to those fixed for Group II
the Community that a reference price should be                    respectively should be specified ;
 fixed for them ;
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided by the present Regu­
Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year                   lation are in conformity with the Advice of the
are marketed from June to October ; whereas the                    Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
 quantities harvested during the first 10 days of June
 and during the last 10 days of October are so small
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
that there is no need to fix reference prices for that
period ; whereas reference prices should be fixed
only for the period from 11 June to 20 October ;                                            Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                  1.    For the 1973 marketing year the reference
 (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal                prices for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                  Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                 account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class
of transporting Community products from the                       I and II of all sizes, shall be as follows for each of the
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                 groups of varieties :
 whereas the trend of average basic prices and                                                     Group 1        Group II
 buying-in prices should also be taken into account ;
                                                                  —    June                           24.3
 Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all                —    July                           23.7
comparable as regards the estimation of their                     —    August                         22.2           18.1
commercial value, these varieties should be classi­               —    September                      191            15.0
fied in two groups ;                                              — October : 1 to 20                                14.2
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account,                  2 . The groups of varieties referred to in para­
the marketing year should be divided into several                 graph 1 shall be composed of the following varie­
periods and a reference price fixed for each of those             ties :
periods ;
                                                                   Group / ;
(x) OJ No L 118, 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                             Altesse double ( Italian quetsche), Précoce favourite,
(*) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p . 147.                         Belle de Louvain , Conducta , Early Rivers, Kirk's
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Blue, Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützel­                ieties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­
sachsen quetsche), Anna Späth, Ersinger (early                    zwetsche), Reine Claude d'Oullins, ( Oullins
Ersingen quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche),                     Gage),     Sveskeblommer,     Ruth   Gertstetter,
Bühler (early Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia,                  Ontario, Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim
Goccia d'oro, Reine Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple                quetsche), Pershore (yellow egg), Mirabelle,
Pershore, Damsons.                                                 Bosniche.
Group 11 :
                                                              Amendments to the provisions of the preceding
Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetsche),               subparagraph shall be adopted in accordance with
Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gert­             the procedure in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No
stetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).                       1035/72, in keeping with changes in the varieties
                                                              imported from third countries.
3 . The entry prices of imported products are to
be compared :
(a) to the prices fixed for Group I where the                                          Article 2
      imported products belong to varieties other
      than those shown in ( b) ;
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
(b) to the prices fixed for Group II where the                following its publication in the Official Journal of
     imported products belong to the following var-           the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 18 June 1973 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                            The President
                                                                       François-Xavier ORTOLI