31972R1159

482 Official Journal of the European Communities

No L 128 / 22 Official Journal of the European Communities 3.6.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 1159/72 OF THE COMMISSION of 2 June 1972

fixing the reference prices for lemons

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ therefore directly comparable to the arithmetic mean MUNITIES, of producer prices ; whereas there is consequently no need to increase the latter by the amount referred to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the above ; European Economic Community ; Whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that producer prices in each 1035 /721 of 18 May 1972 on the common Member State must correspond to the average of organization of the market in fruit and vegetables, quotations recorded during the three years preceding and in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof; the fixing of the reference price on the representative market or markets situated in the production areas where prices are lowest; whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of Whereas Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70 provides that the 1035 /72 and Article 1 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation quotations used for the purposes of this calculation (EEC ) No 1291/702 of 1 July 1970 laying down must relate to packed Class I products of all size detailed rules for the application of that Article grades, the cost of the packing being included in the provide that reference prices valid for the whole of quotations ; whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation the Community must be fixed each year before the (EEC) No 1035/72 lays down that only quotations beginning of the marketing year ; recorded for products or varieties which represent a considerable proportion of marketed production for Whereas, given the extent of lemon production part of the year or throughout the whole year should within the Community, a reference price must be be taken into account ; fixed for that product;

Whereas Article 23 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the reference price for a home-grown 1035/72 provides that when the average of product, with given commercial specifications, is quotations on each representative market is being equal to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in calculated quotations which seem excessively high or each Member State, increased by an amount excessively low in relation to normal price calculated on the basis of marketing costs with a fluctuations on that market must be excluded ; view to enabling the reference price and prices of products imported from third countries to be Whereas, in order to take seasonal fluctuations into compared at the same marketing stage ; whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1291 /70 account, the marketing year should be subdivided into a number of periods and a reference price fixed provides that the quotations to be taken into for each of those periods ; consideration when producer prices are being determined must relate either to the 'ex producer •group' marketing stage or to any other comparable Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and marketing stage ; whereas the first subparagraph of Vegetables has not delivered an Opinion within the Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035 /72 time limit set by its Chairman ; provides that entry prices for imported products must be calculated at, or - converted to , the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : import/wholesale stage ; whereas these prices are Article 1'

1 OJ No L 118 , 20.5.1972, p. 1 . The reference prices for lemons (subheading No - OJ No L 144, 2.7.1970 , p . 10 . 08.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed

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in units of account per 100 kg net are hereby fixed as February 16-0 follows for packed Class I products of all size grades : March 16-5 April 17-2 June 20-8 May 17-6 July 22-0 August 22-4 September 19-6 Article 2 October 16-9 November 15-1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its -publication in the Official Journal of the December 15-6 European Communities. It shall apply until 31 May January 16-4 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 2 June 1972.

For the Commission

The President

S. L. MANSHOLT