31973R1614
No L 162/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 6 . 73
REGULATION (EEC) No 1614/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 18 June 1973 fixing the reference prices for table grapes for the 1973 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN periods and a reference price fixed for each of those COMMUNITIES, periods ; Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the averages of the prices recorded during the three Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro years prior to the date of fixing of the reference pean Economic Community ; price for a home-grown product with defined commercial characteristics on the representative Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No market or markets situated in the production areas 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi where prices are lowest, for the products or varie zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last ties which represent a considerable proportion of amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 2745 /72 (2 ), and production marketed throughout the year or during in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; part of it, and which satisfy specified requirements as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each representative Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) market is being calculated, prices which could be No 1035 /72, reference prices valid for the whole considered excessively high or excessively low in Community are to be fixed each year, before the relation to normal price fluctuations on the market beginning of the marketing year, in respect of the should be disregarded ; whole marketing year ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Whereas table grapes are produced in such quanti Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; ties in the Community that a reference price should be fixed for them ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas table grapes harvested during a given crop Article 1 year are marketed from May to April of the next year ; whereas the quantities harvested in May and For the 1973 marketing year, the reference prices June during the first 10 days of July, the last 10 applicable to table grapes (subheading 08.04 A I of days of November and also December to April of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of the next year are so small that there is no need to account for 100 kg net of packed products of Class fix reference prices for that period ; whereas refer 1 of all sizes , shall be as follows : ence prices should be fixed only for the period from 11 July to 20 November ; — July 1 to 10 — 11 to 20 28.2 21 to 31 23.2 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2 ) of Regulation — August 20.6 ( EEC) No 1035 /72, reference prices are to be equal — September 18.1 to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each — October 17.9 Member State plus an amount representing the costs of transporting Community products from the — November 1 to 10 21.2 production areas to Community marketing centres ; 11 to 20 24.1 whereas the trend of average basic prices and 21 to 30 — buying-in prices should also be taken into account ; Article 2 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 July the marketing year should be divided into several 1973 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels , 18 June 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 . (*) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972 , p . 147 .