No L 185/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 28. 7. 93 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2042/93 of 27 July 1993 reducing the basic price and the buying-in prices for apples for the 1993/94 marketing year as a result of the monetary realignments of September and November 1992, January and May 1993 and the overrun of the intervention threshold fixed for the 1992/93 marketing year ' THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 638/93 (%), and in particular Article 16b (4) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (}), and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof, Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 of 28 December 1992 laying down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus as a result of the monetary realignments (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1663/93 (%), and in particular Article 2 thereof, Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3820/92 of 28 December 1992 on transitional measures for the application of the agrimonetary arrange- ‘ments laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (%) established a link between the agrimone- tary arrangements applicable with effect from 1 January 1993 and those applying previously ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 lays down the list of prices and amounts in the fruit and vegetables sector which are to be divided by the reducing coefficient fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 537/93 (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1331/93 (%), with effect from the beginning of the 1993/94 marketing year, under the arrangements for the automatic dismantlement of negative monetary gaps ; whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3824/92 provides that the resulting reductions in the prices and amounts are to be specified for each () OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. () O] No L 69, 20. 3. 1993, p. 7. () OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. (9 OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 29. () O] No L 158, 30. 6. 1993, p. 18. (9 OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 22. () OJ No L 57, 10. 3. 1993, p. 18. () OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 114. sector concerned and that the reduced prices and amounts are to be fixed; whereas the basic and the buying-in prices for apples for the 1993/94 marketing year have been fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1289/93 (°), as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1334/93 (9; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1352/93 has fixed a basic and a buying-in price for apples for the month of June 1993 ("); Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1845/92 (') fixes the  intervention thresholds for the 1992/93 marketing year at 242 000 tonnes for apples; Whereas, according to Article 16a (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1121/89 of 27 April 1989 fixing the intervention - threshold for apples and cauliflowers (*3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1754/92 (*¥), if during the prece- ding three marketing years, the average intervention measures adopted for apples concern quantities which exceed the thresholds for those products and for that marketing year, the basic and buying-in prices for the following marketing year are to be reduced by 1 % for every 85100 tonnes by which threshold is exceeded ; Whereas, according to the information provided by the Member States, the average intervention measures taken within the Community for 1992/93 concerned 684 250 tonnes in the case of apples; whereas the Commission has established therefore that the intervention thresholds for this marketing year have been exceeded by 442 250 tonnes in the case of apples; Whereas in consequence of the above the basic and the buying-in prices for apples for the 1993/94 marketing year fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1289/93 must be reduced by 5 % ; whereas this reduction is to be added to that resulting from the monetary realignments of September and ‘November 1992, January and May 1993; () OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 3. (" OJ No L 132, 29. 5. 1993, p. 120. (") OJ No L 133, 2. 6. 1993, p. 19. () O] No L 187, 6. 7. 1992, p. 37. (") O] No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 21. () OJ No L 180, 1. 7. 1992, p. 23.