CELEX: 31973R1920
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1920/73 of the Commission of 16 July 1973 fixing the reference prices for pears for the 1973/74 marketing year

No L 198 /24                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             18 . 7. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1920/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 16 July 1973
                    fixing the reference prices for pears for the 1973/74 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  teristics on the representative market or markets situ­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,
                                                                for the products or Varieties which represent a consid­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           erable proportion of production marketed throughout
Economic Community ;                                            the year or during part of it, and which satisfy 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 the
                                                                market should be disregarded ;
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of         are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
the marketing year, in respect of the whole marketing           ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
year ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas pears are produced in such quantities in the
Community that a reference price should be fixed for
them ;                                                                                    Article 1
Whereas pears harvested during a given crop year are            For the marketing year 1973/74 the reference prices
marketed from June to May of the next year ; whereas            applicable to pears other than perry pears (subheading
the quantities harvested in June and for the month of           ex 08.06 B II of the Common Customs Tariff),
May of the next year are so small that there is no need         expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of
to fix reference prices for that period ; whereas refer­        packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall be as
                                                                follows :
ence prices should be fixed only for the period from 1
July to 30 April of the next year ;                             — June                       —
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation               - July                        16-7
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to           — August                      13-4
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                  — September                   13-3
                                                                — October                     14-3
Member State plus an amount representing the costs              — November                    15-4
of transporting Community products from the produc­             — December                    16-5
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                                           17-1
                                                                — January
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
should also be taken into account ;                             •— February
                                                                — March                       17-2
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the            — April
 marketing year should be divided into several periods           — May                        —
 and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the
 averages of the prices recorded during the three years          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a        following its publication in the Official Journal of
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­              the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 147.