CELEX: 31974R1957
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1957/74 of the Commission of 25 July 1974 fixing the reference prices for apples for the 1974/75 marketing year

26 . 7. 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 204/39
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 1957/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 25 July 1974
                     fixing the reference prices for apples for the 1974/75 marketing year
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      for the products or varieties which represent a consid­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        erable proportion of production marketed throughout
                                                                     the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 Economic Community ;                                               whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
                                                                     representative market is being calculated, prices which
                                                                    could be considered excessively high or excessively
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the
  1035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                 market should be disregarded ;
 tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                              Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
                                                                    the varieties imported from third countries of which
 Whereas under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No              the entry prices are to be compared to the prices fixed
 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­               for Group I and to those fixed for Group II and
 nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of            Group III respectively should be specified ;
 the marketing year ;
                                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Whereas apples are produced in such quantities in the              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 Community that a reference price should be fixed for               ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 them ;
Whereas apples harvested during a given crop year are
 marketed from July to June of the next year ; whereas
 reference prices should be fixed for the period from 1             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
July to 30 June of the next year ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
                                                                                             Article 1
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to
 the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                   1.    For the 1974/75 marketing year the reference
of transporting Community products from the produc­                 prices for apples other than cider apples (subheading
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                 ex 08.06 A II of the Common Customs Tariff),
 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices             expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of
should also be taken into account ;
                                                                    packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall be as
                                                                    follows for each of the groups of varieties :
Whereas, since the varieties of apples are not all
comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­                                   Group I      Group II    Group III
cial value , these varieties should be classified in three               July            17-.1           —            —
groups ;                                                                 August          14-5            —            —
                                                                         September       15-6          14-4           9-0
                                                                         October         15-7          1 3-3          9-4
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the
                                                                         November        16-4          1 2-5          9-5
marketing year should be divided into several periods                    December        1 6-9         12-7           9-7
and a reference price for each of those periods ;
                                                                         January         18-0          13 0         10-0
                                                                         February        18-7          14-1         10-9
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the                     March           20-6          14-8         11-1
averages of the prices recorded during the three years                   April           21-1      )                11-4
                                                                                                       1 6-3
prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a                 May             21-3      \                1 1 -9
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­                       June            23-8            —            —
teristics on the representative market or markets situ­
ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,
(') OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972 , p. 1 .                           2 . The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1
(-) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p. 147 .                          are composed of the following varieties :
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Group I :                                                        Geeveston Fanny, Tydeman s early Worcester,
                                                                  Benoni ,   Stark    earlist,   Winston , Reinette     du
Yellow Transparant (Transparante jaune, Klarapfel),
James Grieve, Gravensteiner, Golden Delicious, Cox's             Canada, Berlepsch, Annurca, Lodi, Gravensteiner,
orange pippin , Stark Delicious, rouges américaines,             Miller's Seedling, Worcester pearmain, Weißwinter­
Ingrid Marie, Reinette du Canada, Belle de Boskoop,              glockenapfel, Cortland, Spartan , Red Mac Intosh,
                                                                 various    varieties   of     Cox's other  than    Cox's
Miller's Seedling, Tydemans early Worcester,
Worcester pearmain, Weißwinterglockenapfel, and                  pomona, and mutations of the above varieties ;
mutations of these varieties ;                               (b) to the prices fixed for Group II, where the
                                                                 imported products belong to varieties other than
Group II :                                                       those shown in (a) and (c) ;
Reine des Reinettes (Goldparmane), Jonathan , Impera­        (c) to the prices fixed for Group III, where the
tore (Morgenduft), Grenadier, Lord Derby, Lord                   imported products belong to the following varie­
Lambourne, and mutations of these varieties ;                    ties : Abbondanza (Belfort), Rambour d'hiver, Brett­
                                                                 acher, Horneburger, Krügers Dickstiel, Kirchen­
Group III :                                                      werder, Finkenwerder, Winter Banana, Limoncella,
Abbondanza (Belfort), Horneburger, Finkenwerder,                 Commercio, Reinette clochard, Ontario, Reinette
Bramley's Seedling, and mutations of these varieties.            du Mans, Lemoenapfel, Bramley's Seedling
3 . The entry prices of imported products are to be
                                                                 (Triomphe de Kiel), Pella, Cox's pomona.
compared :                                                   Any amendments to the preceding subparagraph shall
(a) to the prices fixed for Group I, where the imported      be adopted in accordance with the procedure in
    products belong to the following varieties : Golden      Article 33 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 in
     Delicious, Red Delicious, Richared, Stark Deli­         keeping with changes in the varieties imported from
    cious, Starking, Starkrimson , Yellow Transparant        third countries .
    (Transparante jaune), James Grieve, Belle de
     Boskoop, Stayman Winesap, Staymanred, Black                                        Article 2
    Winesap, Granny Smith, Dunn's Seedling, King
    Cole,    Cleopatra,   Democrat,   Yellow    Newton ,     This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
    Crofton, Ingrid Marie, Sturmer, Laxton 's superb,        following its publication in the Official Journal of
    Scarlet    pearmain ,   White    winter   pearmain ,      the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 July 1974.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                            The President
                                                                       Francois-Xavier ORTOLI