No L 129/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 5. 88 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1405/88 of 24 May 1988 exempting certain Member States from the obligation to buy in certain fruit and vegetables THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, - Having regard to the Treaty establlshmg the European ' Economic Community, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, 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 1113/88 (3, and in particular Artncle 19a (4) thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1852/85 of 2 _]uly 1985 laying down detailed rules of application with a view to exempt Member States from the obligation to buy in certain types of fruit and vegetables (*) specified what information the Member States were to provide to the Commission with a view to their being exempted if they - so requested, as provided for in Article 19a (4) of Regula- ~ tion (EEC) No 1035/72, from intervention purchasing; Whereas this information must concern either the proportion of each of the products indicated in Article 19a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 marketed through recognized producer organizations or the proportion harvested in the Member State concerned during the last three marketing years; Whereas the Member States have supplied this informa- tion ; whereas the conditions for exemption laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1852/85 are met by certain Member  States for certain products for the 1988/89 marketing year ; whereas those Member States which have so applied should therefore be exempted from the obligation to make intervention purchases, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The following Member States are hereby exempted, in respect of the 1988/89 marketing year, from the obliga- tions to make intervention purchases, as provided for in Article 19a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, of pears from 1 July to 31 August peaches, apricots, tomatoes and aubergines : Belgium Denmark Germany - Ireland Luxembourg Netherlands , United Kingdom This exemption shall apply in respect of Greece only' to the pears referred to above. Article 2 This Regulatlon shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Commaunities. : This Regulation shall be binding in its. entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 24 May 1988. () OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. () OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 33. () OJ No L 174, 4. 7. 1985, p. 24. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President