31973R1920
No L 198 /24 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 7 . 73
REGULATION (EEC) No 1920/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 16 July 1973 fixing the reference prices for pears for the 1973/74 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN teristics on the representative market or markets situ COMMUNITIES, ated in the production areas where prices are lowest, for the products or Varieties which represent a consid Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European erable proportion of production marketed throughout Economic Community ; the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No fied requirements as regards market preparation ; 1035/72 (J) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last representative market is being calculated, prices which amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in could be considered excessively high or excessively particular Article 27 (1 ) thereof ; low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the market should be disregarded ; Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage the marketing year, in respect of the whole marketing ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; year ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas pears are produced in such quantities in the Community that a reference price should be fixed for Article 1 them ; Whereas pears harvested during a given crop year are For the marketing year 1973/74 the reference prices marketed from June to May of the next year ; whereas applicable to pears other than perry pears (subheading the quantities harvested in June and for the month of ex 08.06 B II of the Common Customs Tariff), May of the next year are so small that there is no need expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of to fix reference prices for that period ; whereas refer packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall be as follows : ence prices should be fixed only for the period from 1 July to 30 April of the next year ; — June — - July 16-7 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation — August 13-4 (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to — September 13-3 the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each — October 14-3 Member State plus an amount representing the costs — November 15-4 of transporting Community products from the produc — December 16-5 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas 17-1 — January the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices •— February should also be taken into account ; — March 17-2 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the — April — marketing year should be divided into several periods — May and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ; Article 2 Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the averages of the prices recorded during the three years This Regulation shall enter into force on the day prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a following its publication in the Official Journal of home-grown product with defined commercial charac the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.