CELEX: 31974R3136
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3136/74 of the Commission of 12 December 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 marketing year the minimum purchase price for oranges supplied for processing and the amount of financial compensation payable in respect of the processing of such oranges

13 . 12. 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 333 /25
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3136/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 12 December 1974
                fixing for the 1974/75 marketing year the minimum purchase price for oranges
               supplied for processing and the amount of financial compensation payable in
                                           respect of the processing of such oranges
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                        are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2601 /69 (!) of 18 December 1969 laying down special
measures to encourage the processing of certain varie­
ties of oranges, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                            Article 1
176/73 (2), and in particular Articles 2 (3) and 3 (2)
thereof ;
                                                                     1 . For the 1974/75 marketing year, the minimum
                                                                     price referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69                    No 2601 /69 is fixed as follows :
provides that the minimum price which, under the
contracts, must be paid by the processors to the                    — 6-5 units of account per 100 kg net for products in
producers is to be calculated on the basis of the                        Class I ,
purchase price plus 10 % of the basic price of the
varieties which, by reason of their commercial charac­              — 5-4 units of account per 100 kg net for products in
                                                                         Class II,
teristics, are usually sent for processing ; whereas since
the products in question are oranges of the Biondo                  — 4-2 units of account per 100 kg net for products in
commune variety, the minimum price should be fixed                       Class III or mixed .
on the basis of the average purchase price operative
for oranges of that variety in the current marketing
year under Regulation (EEC) No 1069/74 (3) fixing the                2.    This     price applies to goods    ex-producers'
basic prices and the purchase prices for sweet oranges,              packing station .
as amended by Regulations (EEC) No 2518/74 (4) and
(EEC) No 1203/73 (5) fixing the conversion factors to
be applied to the purchase price for sweet oranges, as
                                                                                              Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1697/74 (6)
plus 1 0 % of the average basic price for that period ;
                                                                    The amount of the financial compensation referred to
                                                                     in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69 is
Whereas, with a view to encouraging recourse to                      fixed as follows :
processing, it seems appropriate to fix the financial
compensation at such a level that the cost to the proc­             — 3-2 units of account per 100 kg net for products in
essor is not subject to any large increase by compar­                    Class I ,
ison with the preceding marketing year, always
providing that, under the terms of Article 3 of Regula­             — 2-1 units of account per 100 kg net for products in
tion (EEC) No 2601 /69, the compensation may not                         Class II ,
exceed the difference between the minimum price
and 80 % of the average price prevailing in the                     — 1-1 units of account per 100 kg net for products in
                                                                         Class III or mixed .
industry in the principal producer Member State
during the three marketing years 1971 /72, 1972/73
and 1973 /74 ;
                                                                                              Article 3
(')  OJ No   L 324, 27. 12. 1969 , p. 21 .
(2)  OJ No   L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973, p. 3 .
(3)  OJ No   L 120, 1 . 5 . 1974, p. 6..
(4)  OJ No   L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
(5 ) OJ No   L 123, 10 . 5. 1973, p. 1 .                             following its publication in the Official Journal of
(6)  OJ No   L 179, 2. 7. 1974, p. 7.                                the European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 12 December 1974.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                      The President
                                                                 Francois-Xavier ORTOLI