31975R2973

No L 295/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 14 . 11 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2973/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 12 November 1975 fixing for the 1975/76 marketing year the reference prices for sweet oranges

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 251 1 /69 (3) of 9 December 1969 laying down special COMMUNITIES, measures for improving the production^ and marketing of Community citrus fruit, as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2481 /75 (4) ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas for the 1975/76 marketing year the financial compensation provided for by Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511 /69 has been increased, by comparison with the 1035/72 0 of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ preceding marketing year, by a percentage exceeding tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last that by which the basic and buying-in prices have amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in been increased ; whereas the reference prices for the particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; 1975/76 marketing year should therefore be main­ tained at the levels fixed for the previous year. Whereas Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1035/72 provides that reference prices for the whole Whereas for the purpose of calculating entry prices Community are to be fixed each year before the begin­ the varieties imported from third countries of which ning of the marketing year ; the entry prices are respectively to be compared with the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must be speci­ Whereas the importance of sweet orange production fied ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties imported in the Community is such that a reference price must from third countries are not directly comparable, as be fixed for that product ; regards their commercial value , with the Community variety groups ; whereas provision should therefore be made to fix, by reference to their respective commer­ Whereas the period during which oranges harvested cial values, conversion factors to be applied for the during a given crop year are marketed extends from purpose of calculating the entry price to the prices for October to the following June ; whereas the quantity these varieties imported from third countries so as to put on the market during October and November and make them comparable with the Community variety during the following May and June represents only a groups ; small percentage of that marketed over the whole marketing year ; whereas the reference price should Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation therefore be fixed only for a period running from 1 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ December to 30 April of the following year ; ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,

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

Whereas the solution best suited to the particular nature of the Community market for the product in Article 1 question is to fix for each group a single reference price for the whole marketing year ; 1 . For the 1975/76 marketing year, the reference prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheading 08.02 A I Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 23 of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices account per 100 kg net and applicable to Class I for sweet oranges are, beginning with the 1975/76 products of all sizes, packed, shall be as follows : marketing year, to be fixed at a level equal to that of the previous marketing year, adjusted as necessary by Group I : from 1 December to 31 March : 18-90 , a percentage not exceeding the difference between the Group II : from 1 January to 30 April : 16-28 , percentages representing respectively the variation Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 9-03 . compared with the preceding marketing year in basic and buying-in prices and in the financial compensa­ 2. The variety groups referred to in paragraph 1 tion provided for by Council Regulation ( EEC) No consist of the following varieties :

(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969 , p. 1 (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p . 3 . (4) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 1 .

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Group I : Moro and Tarocco, — for the period 1 January to 30 April, with the Group II : Sanguinello, price fixed for Group II. Group III : Biondo comune. 4. In calculating the entry prices as referred to in 3. The entry prices of imported products shall be paragraph 3, the prices for products imported from compared : third countries shall, after deduction of customs (a) in the case of the Moro and Tarocco varieties, with duties, be adjusted as follows : the price fixed for Group I ; — in the case of products as specified in paragraph 3 (b) in the case of the varieties Biondo comune (Blanca (b), by the conversion factor 0-76, comuna, Blonde commune) Grano de Oro (Impe­ — in the case of products to which the first indent of rial, Sucrena), Baladi, Pera, Macetera, Pineapple, paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor Blood oval (Doblefina, Double fine), Portuguese 1-20 , Blood, Sanguina redonda (Entrefina), the Surinam varieties and the Ordinary Blood variety with the — in the case to which the second indent of para­ exception of Navel Blood (Double fine improved, graph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor 100. Washington Blood, Large Blood) and Maltese Blood, with the price fixed for Group III ; Article 2 (c) in the case of varieties met specified in (a) or (b) : — for the month _of December, with the price for This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December 1975 . Group I,

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

Done at Brussels, 12 November 1975 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission