CELEX: 31975R1308
Language: en
Date: 1975-05-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1308/75 of the Commission of 23 May 1975 fixing for the 1975 marketing year the reference prices for plums

No L 133/34                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 5. 75
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1308/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 23 May 1975
                       fixing for the 1975 marketing year the reference prices for plums
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    market or markets situated in the production areas
COMMUNITIES,                                                      where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
                                                                  the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
 Economic Community ;                                             teristics, being a product or variety representing a
                                                                  substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                  over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 1035/72 ( J) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­              whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                representative market is being calculated, prices which
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                could be considered excessively high or excessively
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                             low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                   market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of               Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
the marketing year ;                                              the varieties imported from third countries of which
                                                                  the entry prices are to be compared with the prices
Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in the               fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II
 Community that reference prices should be fixed for               respectively should be specified ;
them ;
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
marketed from June to October ; whereas the quanti­                ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
ties harvested during the first 10 days of June and
during the last 10 days of October are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for these
periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only
for the period from 1 1 June up to and including 20
October ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                                         Article 1
Member State plus an amount representing the costs
of transporting Community products from the produc­
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                1 . For the 1975 marketing year the reference prices
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices             for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the Common
must also be taken into account ;                                  Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
                                                                   kg net of packed products of Class I, of all sizes, shall
Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all                 be as follows for each of the groups of varieties :
comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­
cial value, these varieties should be classified in two
groups ;                                                                                              Group I     Group 11
                                                                  — from 11 June to 31 July :          29-60
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the            — August :                           28-34       23-10
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­          — September :                        24-38        19-14
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
                                                                  — October (1 to 20) :                             18-08
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
average of the prices recorded on the representative
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                           2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 .                         shall be composed of the following varieties :
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Group I                                                      (b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the
Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Precoce favourite,            imported products belong to the following varie­
Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue,           ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­
Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützelsachsen               zwetsche), Reine Claude d'Oullins, (Oullins Gage),
quetsche), Anna Spath, Ersinger (early Ersingen                  Sveskeblommer,'      Ruth     Gertstetter, Ontario,
quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early              Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim quetsche),
Buhl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro,                Pershore (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche.
Reine Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple Pershore,
Damsons .                                                    Amendments to the provisions of the preceding subpa­
                                                             ragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the proce­
Group II                                                     dure in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in
Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetsche),              keeping with changes in the varieties imported from
Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gert­            third countries .
stetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).
3. The entry prices of imported products are to be
compared :                                                                           Article 2
(a) with the prices fixed for Group I where the
     imported products belong to varieties other than        This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 June
     those shown in (b) ;                                     1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 23 May 1975 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission