31973R1616

No L 162/ 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 6 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1616/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 18 June 1973 fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1973 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to COMMUNITES, the averages of the prices recording during the three years prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a home-grown product with defined Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ commercial characteristics on the representative pean Economic Community ; market or markets situated in the production areas where prices are lowest, for the products or var­ Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No ieties which represent a considerable proportion of 1035/72 i 1 ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organi­ production marketed throughout the year or during zation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last part of it, and which satisfy specified requirements amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; average of prices recorded on each representative market is being calculated, prices which could be Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) considered excessively high or excessively low in rela­ No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole tion to normal price fluctuations on the market Community are to be fixed each year, before the should be disregarded ; beginning of the marketing year, in respect of the Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices, whole marketing year ; the varieties imported from third countries of which tile entry prices are to be compared to the prices Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in fixed for Group I and to those fixed for Group II the Community that a reference price should be respectively should be specified ; fixed for them ; Whereas the measures provided by the present Regu­ Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year lation are in conformity with the Advice of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; are marketed from June to October ; whereas the quantities harvested during the first 10 days of June and during the last 10 days of October are so small HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : that there is no need to fix reference prices for that period ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only for the period from 11 June to 20 October ; Article 1

Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation 1 . For the 1973 marketing year the reference (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal prices for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class Member State plus an amount representing the costs I and II of all sizes, shall be as follows for each of the of transporting Community products from the groups of varieties : production areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the trend of average basic prices and Group 1 Group II buying-in prices should also be taken into account ; — June 24.3 — July 23.7 Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all comparable as regards the estimation of their — August 22.2 18.1 commercial value, these varieties should be classi­ 191 15.0 — September fied in two groups ; — October : 1 to 20 14.2

Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, 2 . The groups of varieties referred to in para­ the marketing year should be divided into several graph 1 shall be composed of the following varie­ periods and a reference price fixed for each of those ties : periods ; Group / ; (x) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p . 1 . Altesse double ( Italian quetsche ), Précoce favourite, (*) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972 , p . 147. Belle de Louvain , Conducta , Early Rivers, Kirk's

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Blue, Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützel­ ieties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­ sachsen quetsche), Anna Späth, Ersinger (early zwetsche), Reine Claude d'Oullins, ( Oullins Ersingen quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Gage), Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gertstetter, Bühler (early Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Ontario, Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim Goccia d'oro, Reine Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple quetsche), Pershore (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Pershore, Damsons . Bosniche.

Group 11 : Amendments to the provisions of the preceding Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetsche), subparagraph shall be adopted in accordance with Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gert­ the procedure in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No stetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg). 1035/72, in keeping with changes in the varieties imported from third countries. 3 . The entry prices of imported products are to be compared :

(a) to the prices fixed for Group I where the Article 2 imported products belong to varieties other than those shown in ( b ) ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day (b) to the prices fixed for Group II where the following its publication in the Official Journal of imported products belong to the following var- the European Communities.

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