31972R2711

10 Official Journal of the European Communities

No L 291 /10 Official Journal of the European Communities 28.12.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 2711/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 19 December 1972 laying down intervention prices for fresh or chilled sardines and anchovies . for the 1973 fishing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­ Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2709/723 fixed TIES , the guide prices for fishery products listed in Annex I , A and C of Regulation (EEC) Having regard to the Treaty establishing the No 2142/70 for the 1973 fishing year while European Economic Community; retaining in respect of sardines different levels for those caught in the Atlantic and those in Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 2142/701 of the Council of 20 October 1970 on the the Mediterranean; common organisation of the market in fishery Whereas the reasons which lead to the fixing products as last amended by the Act2 annexed of each of these guide prices at a single level to the Treaty concerning the Accession of new for the whole fishing year apply equally for the Member States to the European Economic fixing of intervention prices ; Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January Whereas , given the present state of information 1972, and in particular Article 8 (4) thereof; on the market situation for the products in question and the absence of any experience in Having regard to the proposal from the Com­ relation to purchase on the open market of mission ; these products, the intervention prices applic­ Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) able to these products should be fixed at a level No 2142/70 provides that intervention prices such as to ensure maximum support of the should be fixed for fresh or chilled sardines market, and anchovies at a level designed to ensure the stability of market prices without leading to the formation of structural surpluses in the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Community; Whereas Article 8 (3) of the same Regulation Article 1 provides that the intervention price should be fixed at a level between 35% and 45% of the guide price depending on the production and The intervention prices of fresh or chilled sar­ marketing characteristics peculiar to each dines and anchovies and the products to which product; they relate are fixed as follows :

1 OJ No L 236, 27.10.1970, p . 5. 2 OJ No L 73 , 27.3.1972 , p . 14. 3 OJ No L 291 , 28.12.1972 , p . 7 .

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Commercial specifications1 Intervention Species price Category (in u.a. /t) of freshness Size Presentation

- 1 . Sardines :

(a) Atlantic Extra 2 whole fish 176

( b} Aíediterranean Extra 2 whole fish 98

2 . Anchovies Extra 2 whole fish 160

1 The ca'e?ones of freshness , size and presentation are those defined in application of Article 2 of Regulation EEC No 2142 70 .

These prices shall be valid until 31 December 1973 .

Article2¶

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done a : Brussels, 19 December 1972 . For the Council

The President P. LARDINOIS