CELEX: 31972R2711
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2711/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 laying down intervention prices for fresh or chilled sardines and anchovies for the 1973 fishing year

10                                Official Journal of the European Communities
 No L 291/10                       Official Journal of the European Communities                        28.12.72
                        REGULATION (EEC) No 2711/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 19 December 1972
            laying down intervention prices for fresh or chilled sardines and anchovies
                                             . for the 1973 fishing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                           Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2709/723 fixed
TIES ,                                                         the guide prices for fishery products listed in
                                                               Annex I, A and C of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   No 2142/70 for the 1973 fishing year while
European Economic Community;                                   retaining in respect of sardines different levels
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2142/701                  for those caught in the Atlantic and those in
of the Council of 20 October 1970 on the                       the Mediterranean;
common organisation of the market in fishery                   Whereas the reasons which lead to the fixing
products as last amended by the Act2 annexed                   of each of these guide prices at a single level
to the Treaty concerning the Accession of new                 for the whole fishing year apply equally for the
Member States to the European Economic                        fixing of intervention prices ;
Community and the European Atomic Energy
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January                    Whereas, given the present state of information
1972, and in particular Article 8 (4) thereof;                 on the market situation for the products in
Having regard to the proposal from the Com­                    question and the absence of any experience in
mission;                                                       relation to purchase on the open market of
                                                               these products, the intervention prices applic­
Whereas Article 8 ( 1) of Regulation (EEC)                     able to these products should be fixed at a level
No 2142/70 provides that intervention prices                   such as to ensure maximum support of the
should be fixed for fresh or chilled sardines                  market,
and anchovies at a level designed to ensure the
stability of market prices without leading to
the formation of structural surpluses in the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community;
Whereas Article 8 (3) of the same Regulation
                                                                                     Article 1
provides that the intervention price should be
fixed at a level between 35% and 45% of the
guide price depending on the production and                    The intervention prices of fresh or chilled sar­
marketing characteristics peculiar to each                     dines and anchovies and the products to which
product;                                                      they relate are fixed as follows:
1   OJ No L 236, 27.10.1970, p . 5.
2   OJ No L 73 , 27.3.1972 , p . 14.                          3   OJ No L 291 , 28.12.1972 , p . 7 .
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                                                      Commercial specifications1
                                                                                                    Intervention
              Species                                                                                   price
                                         Category                                                    (in u.a. /t)
                                        of freshness            Size             Presentation
                                          -
 1 . Sardines :
      (a) Atlantic                        Extra                  2               whole fish             176
     ( b} Aíediterranean                  Extra                  2               whole fish              98
2 . Anchovies                             Extra                  2               whole fish             160
1   The ca'e?ones of freshness , size and presentation are those defined in application of Article 2 of Regulation
     EEC  No 2142 70 .
These prices shall be valid until 31 December 1973 .
                                                     Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1973 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done a : Brussels, 19 December 1972 .
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                     P. LARDINOIS