31974R1958

26 . 7 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 204/41

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1958 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 25 July 1974 fixing the reference prices for pears for the 1974/75 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN prior to the date on which the reference price is fixed, COMMUNITIES , for a home-grown product with defined commercial characteristics on the representative market or markets Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European situated in the production areas where prices are Economic Community ; lowest, for the products or varieties which represent a Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No considerable proportion of production marketed 1035/72 0 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ throughout the year or during part of it, and which tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last satisfy specified requirements as regards market prepa­ amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in ration ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; on each representative market is being calculated, Whereas under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No prices which could be considered excessively high or 1035/72 there are to be fixed each year, before the excessively low in relation to normal price fluctua­ beginning of the marketing year, reference prices tions on the market are to be disregarded ; valid for the whole Community ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas pears are produced in such quantities in the are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Community that a reference price should be fixed for ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, them ; Whereas pears harvested during a given crop year are HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : marketed from June in that year to May of the following year ; whereas the quantities marketed in Article 1 June and in May of the following year are so small that there is no need to fix reference prices for those For the marketing year 1974/75 the reference prices months ; whereas reference prices should therefore be applicable to pears other than perry pears (subheading fixed only for the period running from 1 July in one ex 08.06 B II of the Common Customs Tariff), year to 30 April in the following year ; expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall be as (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to follows : the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each — July 16-9 Member State plus an amount representing the costs — August 14-1 of transporting Community products from the produc­ — September 14-0 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas '— October 15-1 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices — November 16-2 is also taken into account ; — December 17-4 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account the — January to April inclusive 18-1 marketing year should be divided into a number of Article 2 periods and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the following its publication in the Official Journal of averages of the prices recorded during the three years the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 July 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.