31975R3177

No L 315/ 14 5 . 12 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 3177 /75 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 December 1975 fixing for the marketing year 1975/76 the minimum purchase price for oranges supplied for processing and the amount of financial compensation payable in respect of the processing of such oranges

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and COMMUNITIES, Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its Chairman , Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69 (J) of 18 December 1969 laying down special Article 1 measures to encourage the processing of certain varie­ ties of oranges, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) 1 . For the marketing year 1975/76, the minimum No 2483/75 (2), and in particular Articles 2 (3) and 3 price referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) (2) thereof ; No 2601 /69 shall be as follows : Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69 — 7*30 units of account per 100 kg net for products provides that the minimum price which, under the of Class I, contracts, must be paid by the processers to the — 6-00 units of account per 100 kg net for products producers is to be calculated on the basis of the of Class II, purchase price plus 10 % of the basic price of the — 4-70 units of account per 100 kg net for products varieties which, by reason of their commercial charac­ of Class III or of mixed grades. teristics, are usually sent for processing ; whereas, 2. This price shall apply to goods ex-producers' since the products in question are oranges of the packing station . Biondo commune variety, the minimum price should be fixed on the basis of the average purchase price Article 2 operative for oranges of that variety in the current marketing year under Regulation (EEC) No 474/75 (3) The amount of the financial compensation referred to fixing the basic prices and the purchase prices for in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69 shall sweet oranges, and Regulation (EEC) No 1203/73 (4) be as follows : fixing the conversion factors to be applied to the — 4-70 units of account per 100 kg net for products purchase price for sweet oranges, as last amended by of Class I, Regulation (EEC) No 2571 /75 (5), plus 10% of the — 3-40 units of account per 100 kg net for products average basic price for that period ; of Class II, Whereas, as regards the calculation of the financial — 2-10 units of account per 100 kg net for products compensation, it has proved necessary, in order to of Class III or of mixed grades. provide the maximum incentive for the processing of the products in question, to base it on the difference Article 3 between the minimum price paid to the producer and 80 % of the average price prevailing in the industry in This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day the principal producer Member State during the three following its publication in the Official Journal of marketing years 1972/73, 1973/74 and 1974/75 ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 December 1975 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(•) OJ No L 324 27. 12. 1969 , p. 21 . (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 5 . P) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975, p. 24. (4 OJ No L 123 10 . 5 . 1973 , p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 262, 10 . 10 . 1975, p . 22.