CELEX: 31973R0141
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 141/73 of the Commission of 19 January 1973 fixing, for the 1972/73 marketing year, the minimum purchase price for oranges delivered to industry and the amount of financial compensation for those oranges after processing

No L 18/ 10                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           23 . 1 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 141/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 19 January 1973
               fixing, for the 1972/73 marketing year, the minimum purchase price for oranges
               delivered to industry and the amount of financial compensation for those oranges after
                                                               processing
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas the measures provided by the present Regu­
COMMUNITIES ,                                                          lation are in conformity with the Advice of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
pean Economic Community,
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2601 / 69 (*) of 18 December 1969 laying down special                                            Article 1
measures to encourage the processing of certain
varieties of oranges, and in particular Articles 2 (3 )                 1.     For the 1972/ 1973 marketing year, the mini­
and 3 (2) thereof,                                                      mum price referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69                       (EEC ) No 2601/69 is fixed as follows :
provides that the minimum price which , under the                       — 5.5 units of account per 100 kg net for products
contracts, must be paid by the processors to the                             in Class I,
producers is calculated on the basis of the purchase                   — 4.4 units of account per 100 kg net for products
price plus 10% of the basis price of the varieties                           in Class II,
 which, by reason of their commercial characteristics,                  — 3.8 units of account per 100 kg net for products
are usually sent for processing ; whereas since the                          in Class III or mixed .
products in question are oranges of the Biondo
comune variety, the minimum price should be fixed                       2.     This price refers to packed goods leaving pro­
 on the basis of the average purchase price operative                  ducers' packing stations.
for oranges of that variety in the current marketing                                             Article 2
year under Regulation ( EEC) No 2430/72 (2) fixing
the basic prices and the purchase prices for sweet                      The amount of the financial compensation referred
 oranges, and ( EEC) No 2539/72 (3) fixing the con­                     to in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2601/69
version factors to be applied to the purchase price                     is fixed as follows ;
for sweet oranges, plus 10 °/o of the average basic                     — 2.6 units of account per 100 kg net for products
price corresponding to that same period ;                                    in Class I,
Whereas, as regards, the calculation of the financial                  — 1.5 units of account per 100 kg net for products
compensation , it has proved necessary, in order to                          in Class II,
provide the maximum encouragement to the pro­                           — 0.9 units of account per 100 kg net for products
cessing of the products in question , to base it on                          in Class III or mixed .
the difference between the minimum price paid to the                                             Article 3
producer and 80 °/o of the average price prevailing
in the industry in the principal producer Member                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
State during the three marketing years 1969/70,                         of its publication in the Official Journal of the
1970/71 , and 1971 /72 ;                                                European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 19 January 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI
 (») OJ No L 324 , 27 . 12 . 1969, p . 21 .
( 2) O J No L 264 , 23 . 11 . 1972 , p . 7 .
(3) OJ No L 272 , 5 . 12 . 1972 , p . 22 .