31974R1363

No L 147/44 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 6 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1363 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 May 1974 fixing the reference prices for table grapes 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 0 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 table grapes are produced in such quantities Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation in the Community that a reference price should be are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ fixed for them ; ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, Whereas table grapes harvested during a given crop year are marketed from May to April of the next year ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : whereas the quantities harvested in May and June, during the first 10 days of July, the last 10 days of Article 1 November and also December to April of the next year are so small that there is no need to fix reference For the 1974 marketing year, the reference prices prices for that period ; whereas reference prices should applicable to table grapes (subheading 08.04 A I of the be fixed only for the period from 1 1 July to 20 Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of November ; account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall be as follows : Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to — July 1 to 10 — 1 1 to 20 28-5 the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member State plus an amount representing the costs 21 to 31 23-5 of transporting Community products from the produc­ — August 22-7 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas — September and October 19-8 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices — November 1 to 20 22-9 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 1 1 July 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, 31 May 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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