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No L 133 /52 Official Journal of the European Communities 10.6.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 1215 /72 OF THE COMMISSION

of 9 June 1972

fixing reference prices for peaches

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 above; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that producer prices in each Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Member State must correspond to the average of 1035/721 of 18 May 1972 on the common quotations recorded during the three years preceding organization of the market in fruit and vegetables, the fixing of the reference price on the representative and in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof; market or markets situated i'n 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 packing being included in the provide that reference prices valid for the whole quotations ; whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation 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 peach production within part of the year or throughout the whole year should the Community, a reference price must be fixed for. be taken into account; 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 equal quotations on each representative market is being to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each calculated quotations which seem excessively high or Member State, increased by an amount calculated on excessively low in relation to normal price the basis of marketing costs with a view to enabling fluctuations on that market must be excluded ; the reference price and prices of products imported from third countries to be compared at the same Whereas in order to take seasonal fluctuations into marketing stage ; whereas Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation account the marketing year should be subdivided into (EEC) No 1291 /70 provides that the quotations to be a number of periods and a reference price fixed for taken into consideration when producer prices are each of those periods ; being determined must relate either to the 'ex producer group' marketing stage or to any other Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and comparable marketing stage; whereas the first Vegetables has not delivered an Opinion within the subparagraph of Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) time limit set by its Chairman ; No 1035/72 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 peaches (subheading No 2 OJ No L 144, 2.7.1970, p . 10; 08.07 B of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed

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in units of account per 100 kg net, are hereby fixed Article 2 as follows for packed Class I products of all size grades : This Regulation shall enter into force on the day June first ten days — following its publication in the Official Journal of the second ten days 28-2 European Communities. It shall apply until 30 April third ten days 25-4 1973 . July 21-9 August 20-4 September is -9

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

Done at Brussels, 9 June 1972.

For the Commission

The President

S. L. MANSHOLT