31972R1484

Official Journal of the European Communities 681

No L 157/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 13.7.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 1484/72 OF THE COMMISSION of 12 July 1972

fixing reference prices for table grapes

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ of producer prices; whereas there is consequently no MUNITIES, 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 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 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; for products or varieties which represent a considerable proportion of marketed production for part of the year or throughout the whole year should Whereas, given the extent of the production of table be taken into account ; grapes within the Community, a reference price must be fixed for that product; Whereas Article 23 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that when the average of Whereas the reference price for a home-grown quotations on each representative market is being product, with given commercial specifications, is calculated quotations which seem excessively high or equal to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in excessively low in relation to normal price each Member State, increased by an amount fluctuations on that market must be excluded ; calculated on the basis of marketing costs, with a 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 account, the marketing year should be subdivided Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1291/70 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 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation group' marketing stage or to any other comparable are in accordance with the Opinion of the marketing stage; whereas the first subparagraph of Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that entry prices for imported products must HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be calculated at, or converted to, the import/wholesale stage; whereas these prices are Article 1 therefore directly comparable to the arithmetic mean

The reference prices for table grapes (subheading No OJ No L 118 , 20.5.1972, p . 1 . 08.04 A I of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed OJ No L 144, 2.7.1970, p . 10. in units of account per 100 kg net, are hereby fixed

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as follows for packed Class I products of all size Article 2 grades : This Regulation shall enter into force on the day July 1st ten days following its publication in the Official Journal of the 2nd ten days 25-9 European Communities. 3rd ten days 20-9 August 17-6 It shall apply until 30 June 1973 . September 15-2 October 14-8 November 1st ten days 18-9 2nd ten days 21-8 3rd ten days

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

Done at Brussels, 12 July 1972.

For the Commission The President

S. L. MANSHOLT