31972R0943

402 Official Journal of the European Communities

6.5.72 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 107 / 13

REGULATION (EEC) No 943/72 OF THE COMMISSION

of 5 May 1972

fixing the conversion factors to be applied to the purchase price for cauliflowers fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 923/72

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ ' non-returnable' type ; whereas, in order to encourage MUNITIES , the use of these products for one of the purposes indicated in the first indent of Article 7 (b) ( 1 ) ( a) of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Regulation No 159/66/EEC, provision should be European Economic Community ; made in this case for these products to be purchased 'packaging included' when the packaging is not recovered for subsequent use ; whereas however such Having regard to Council Regulation No purchase should be effected only where the use of 159/66/EEC 1 of 25 October 1966 laying down additional provisions on the common organization of such relatively expensive packaging is justified by the the market in fruit and vegetables, as last amended commercial value of the products concerned ; whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 1425/71 ,2 and in particular consequently the purchase of products 'packaging Article 4 (4) thereof; included' should be limited to products graded in the 'Extra' Class, Class I or Class II; Whereas, in Regulation (EEC) No 923/72,3 the Council fixed the basic price and the purchase price Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation of cauliflowers for the period from 1 May 1972 to 30 are in accordance with the Opinion of the April 1973 ; whereas those prices relate to packed Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; Class I cauliflowers 'with leaves' or ' trimmed'; whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (4) of Regulation No 159/ 66/ EEC, conversion factors must be fixed for HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : calculating the prices at which products with different characteristics are to be purchased; whereas as regards quality, it follows from the provisions of Article 1 the second subparagraph of Article 7 (2) of the Regulation referred to above that conversion factors need only be fixed for Classes II and III ; The conversion factors referred to in Article 4 (4) of Regulation No 159/66/EEC for presentation, quality Whereas the different conversion factors must be class and type of packaging shall be as follows for fixed in relation to the prices recorded on the cauliflowers from 1 May 1972 : as follows : markets ;

'Presentation ' conversion factor Whereas, furthermore, the cost of the packaging in which the product is presented is not taken into account when the basic price and the purchase price Conversion factor are being calculated ; whereas however products May covered by the intervention measures provided for in Presentation November June December January to October Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC are March February ( inclusive) liable to be put up in new packaging of the April

With leaves 1 — 1 — 0-69 Trimmed 1-45 1-65 1 — OJ No 192 , 27. 10.1966,. p . 3286/66 . Without leaves 1-80 2 — 1-24 OJ No L 151 , 7.7.1971 , p. 1 . OJ No L 106, 5.5.1972, p . 2 .

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'Quality class' conversion factor respectively in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation No 159/66/EEC are effected, packaging included', the Conversion purchase price shall be multiplied, in addition to the . Quality class factor conversion factors referred to in Article 1 , by a conversion factor relating to that type of packaging if II 0-70 the products are distributed in accordance with the III 0-40 first indent of Article 7b ( 1 ) ( a) of Regulation No 159/66/EEC and the packaging is not recovered for further use . 'Type of packaging' conversion factor The conversion factor referred to in the preceding Conversion subparagraph shall be so fixed that when it is applied Type of packaging factor to the purchase price multiplied by the other coefficients the resultant increase in that price is 1 1 — unit of account per 100 kg net. — packaged — in bulk, in a means of transport 0-95

Article 3 Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day Where, for cauliflowers of the 'Extra' Class, Class I following its publication in the Official Journal of the and Class II put up in new, 'non-returnable' European Communities. It shall apply until 30 April packaging, the intervention operations provided for 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 5 May 1972.

For the Commission

The ?resident

S. L. MANSHOLT