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No L 338 /32 Official Journal of the European Communities 7. 12 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 3303/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 December 1973 fixing the reference prices for sweet oranges for the 1973/74 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN question would be to fix for each group a single COMMUNITIES, reference price for the whole marketing year ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the producer prices in each Member State , Economic Community ; correspond to the average of the prices recorded, during the three years prior to the date of fixing the reference price for an indigenous product under its Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No trade description, on the representative market or 1035 /72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common markets situated in the production areas where organization of the market in fruit and vegetables, prices are lowest, for products or varieties as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2 ), representing a considerable proportion of the and in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; production marketed for part of the year or throughout the whole year and satisfying given requirements as to packaging ; whereas for each Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) representative market the average of the prices must No 1035 /72, reference prices for the whole Com­ be established disregarding prices which appear munity are to be fixed each year before the beginning excessively high or low as compared with normal of the marketing year ; fluctuations on that market ;

Whereas the importance of sweet orange production Whereas, for the purpose of calculating the entry in the Community is such that a reference price must prices, the varieties imported from third countries of be fixed for that product ; which the entry prices are respectively to be compared with the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must Whereas the period during which oranges harvested be specified ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties during a given crop year are marketed extends from imported from third countries are not directly October to the following June ; whereas the quantity comparable, as regards their value in trade, with put on the market during October and November Community groups of varieties ; whereas, therefore, and during the following May and June represents on the basis of their respective trading values, • conversion factors should be fixed and applied, in only a small percentage of that marketed over the whole marketing year ; whereas the reference price calculating the entry price, to the prices for these should therefore be fixed only for a period running varieties imported from third countries, so as to make from 1 December to 30 April of the following year ; them comparable with Community groups of varieties ;

Whereas Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC ) No 1035 / 72 provides that reference prices for oranges are to Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation be based on the arithmetic mean of producer prices are in accordance with the Opinion of the in each Member State, average fluctuations in basic Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, prices and purchasing prices also being taken into account ;

Whereas, since the varieties of sweet oranges are not HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : comparable as regards their value in trade, they should be classed in three groups ;

Article 1 Whereas the solution best suited to the particular nature of the Community market for the product in 1 . For the 1973 /74 marketing year, the reference prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheaiding ex 08.02 A I of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units (») OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 . (*) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 147 . of account per 100 kg net of each of the varieties

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of Groups I, II and III for Class I products, of all Blood variety with the exception of Navel Blood sizes, packed, shall be : (Double fine improved, Washington Blood, Large Blood) and Maltese Blood ; Group 1 : from 1 December to 31 March : 18 0 ( c) as regards varieties not listed under ( a) and (b ) : Group 11 : from 1 January to 30 April : 15.5 — for the month of December, with the price Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 8.6 for Group I, — for the period from 1 January to 30 April, 2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph with the price fixed for Group II. 1 shall consist of the following varieties : 4. In calculating the entry price referred to in Group I : Moro and Tarocco paragraph 3 , the prices for products imported from Group II : Sanguinello third countries shall, after deduction of customs Group III : Biondo comune duties , be adjusted : — for products listed in paragraph 3 (b), by the 3. The entry prices of imported products shall be conversion factor 0.76 ; compared : — for products to which the first indent of paragraph (a) with the price fixed for Group I, as regards the 3 ( c) applies, by the conversion factor 1.20 ; Moro and Tarocco varieties ; — for products to which the second indent of paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor (b ) with the price fixed for Group III, as regards 1.00 . Biondo comune (Blanca comuna, Blonde com­ mune), Grano de Oro (Imperial, Sucrena), Baladi , Article 2 Pera, Macetera, Pineapple, Blood oval (Doblefina, Double fine), Portuguese Blood, Sanguina redonda This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December (Entrefina) the Surinam varieties and the Ordinary 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 6 December 1973 .

For the Commission The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI