31974R1242

No L 134/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 17 . 5 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1242/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 16 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for cherries for the 1974 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the COMMUNITIES, averages of the prices recorded during the three years prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European home-grown product with defined commercial charac­ Economic Community ; teristics on the representative market or markets situ­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ated in the production areas where prices are lowest, 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ for the products or varieties which represent a consid­ tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last erable proportion of production marketed throughout amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­ particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; fied requirements as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each Whereas, under Article 23(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No representative market is being calculated, prices which 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­ could be considered excessively high or excessively nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the the marketing year ; market should be disregarded ; Whereas cherries are produced in such quantities in Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation the Community that a reference price should be fixed are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ for them ; ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, Whereas cherries harvested during a given crop year are marketed from April to August ; whereas the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : quantities harvested in April and during the first 20 days of May are so small that there is no need to fix Article 1 reference prices for that period ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only for the period from 21 For the 1974 marketing year, the reference prices May to 1 0 August ; applicable to cherries (subheading No 08.07 C of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation account per 100 kg net of packet products of Class I (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to of all sizes, shall be as follows : the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member State plus an amount representing the costs 21 to 31 May : 49-1 of transporting Community products from the produc­ June : 43-1 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas July : 39-6 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices 1 to 1 0 August : 30-4 should also be taken into account ; Article 2 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the marketing year should be divided into several periods This Regulation shall enter into .force on 21 May and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ; 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels, 16 May 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

( i) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.