31972R2430

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23.11.72 , Official Journal of the European Communities No L 264/7

REGULATION (EEC) No 2430/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 21 November 1972 fixing basic and buying-in prices for sweet oranges for the period extending from 1 December 1972 to 30 April 1973

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­ -— for the period from January to April, Class I TIES , oranges of the Sanguinello variety; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Whereas , to take seasonal fluctuations in orange European Economic Community; prices into account, the marketing year should be subdivided into a number of periods and Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) basic and buying-in prices fixed for each one of No 1035/721 of 18 May 1972 on the common these periods ; organisation of the market in fruit and vege­ tables , and in particular Articles 16 ( 1 ) and 35 Whereas when the basic price is being deter­ thereof; mined, the surplus production areas which must be taken into account pursuant to Article Having regard to the proposal from the 16 (2) of Regulation (EfiC) No 1035/72 are: Commission; — in December Whereas the marketing of oranges harvested in and January: the Italian production areas of a given crop year covers the period from the Provinces of Catania and October to June of the following year; Syracuse, Whereas, pursuant to Article 16 ( 1 ) second — in February: the Italian production area of subparagraph of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, the Province of Syracuse, the slack marketing periods at the beginning and end of the crop year should be excluded; — in March: the Italian production areas of the Provinces of Catania and whereas the quantities marketed in October and November and in May and June of the Syracuse, following year represent only a small per­ — in April: the Italian production area of centage of the tonnage marketed over the whole the Province of Catania ; of the crop , year; whereas , therefore, these months should not be taken into account in Whereas , in order to take into account the determining the duration of the market year, conditions of production peculiar to certain which should thus be the period from 1 Decem­ regions of the Community, by way of exception, ber to 30 April of the following year; and pending the introduction of measures to adapt cultivation techniques, the findings Whereas orange production in the Community provided for in Article 17 ( 1) of Regulation includes several varieties; whereas different (EEC) No 1035/72 should be permitted to quotations, according to the different varieties , apply to products belonging to other varieties are recorded on the market; whereas, therefore, more representative at regional level than the for the purposes of applying the intervention variety adopted for the whole of the Com­ system, a sufficiently representative variety munity; should be selected according to the different periods; whereas the products listed below fulfil this requirement: HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: — for December, Class I oranges of the Moro variety, Article 1

1 . For the period from 1 December 1972 to i OJ No L 118, 20.5.1972, p. 1 . 30 April 1973 the basic and buying-in prices of

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sweet oranges , expressed in units of account Article 3 per 100 kg net weight, shall be as follows : During the months from January to April inclusive, the findings referred to in Article 19 ( 1) Basic price Buying-in price and (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 shall December 15-9 10-9 also be carried out on the basis of quotations January 13-3 9-2 recorded on representative markets for the February 13-5 9-4 produce, for Class I oranges of the 60/76 mm March 15-0 9-6 size-grade, of the Common Biondo variety, put April 15-6 9-9 up in packages ; in this case these prices, reduced if necessary by the cost of the packages included 2 . The prices set out in paragraph 1 shall in them, shall be subject to a coefficient of 2-5 . apply: — for the month of December, to Class I Article 4 oranges of the 67/80 mm size-grade, of the Moro variety, 1 . The information to be communicated — for the months from January to April pursuant to Article 17 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) inclusive, to Class I oranges of the 67/80 mm No 1035/72 shall relate to quotations , not size-grade, of the Sanguinello variety, put up including the cost of packaging, recorded for in packages . each of the varieties referred to in Article 1 (2) and, if need be, for the variety referred to in Article 3 .

Article 2 2 . If, for the months from January to April inclusive, for a given representative market, the The prices set out in Article 1 ( 1 ) shall not prices communicated pursuant to paragraph 1 include the cost of the packages in which the refer to several varieties , the price to be taken produce is put up. into account in. order to carry out the findings provided for in Article 19 ( 1 ) and (3) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1035/72 shall be the lowest one. Where all or part of the cost of the package in which the produce is put up is included in quotations for a product recorded on represen­ Article 5 tative markets in accordance with the provisions of Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, such quotations shall be reduced by the cost This Regulation shall enter into force on of the package included therein. 1 December 1972 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 21 November 1972. For the Council The President

P. LARDINOIS