ARE CORRECT . IT IS APPARENT FROM THE POTATO MARKETING BOARD ' S STATISTICS THAT GREEK IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM BETWEEN 1 JUNE AND 11 JUNE 1983 ACCOUNTED FOR 220 TONNES OUT OF A TOTAL OF 34 675 TONNES SOLD ON THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET AND , BETWEEN 11 AND 17 JUNE , FOR 3 754 TONNES OUT OF A TOTAL OF 35 302 TONNES . IT WAS ONLY IN THE WEEK FROM 18 TO 24 JUNE THAT THEY REACHED THE LEVEL OF 10 402 TONNES OUT OF A TOTAL OF 42 516 TONNES .
16 IN THE LIGHT OF THOSE FIGURES , THE COMMISSION WAS JUSTIFIED IN CONCLUDING THAT , EVEN IF THEIR PRICE WAS BELOW THAT OF COMPETING PRODUCE , THE GREEK POTATOES , BY REASON OF THEIR SMALL QUANTITIES , COULD NOT HAVE GIVEN RISE TO A GENERAL DOWNWARD MOVEMENT DURING THE PERIOD PRECEDING THE REQUEST FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES . NOR IS THERE ANY BASIS FOR TAKING THE VIEW , AS THE APPLICANTS DO , THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT LARGE QUANTITIES OF GREEK POTATOES WERE EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AFTER 17 JUNE 1983 COULD HAVE UPSET PRICES AS FROM 7 JUNE 1983 .
17 THE QUESTION NOW TO BE CONSIDERED IS WHETHER IT WAS REASONABLE FOR THE COMMISSION TO TAKE THE VIEW THAT THE CONSIDERABLE QUANTITIES OF GREEK POTATOES TO BE IMPORTED AFTER 20 JUNE 1983 WOULD NOT SERIOUSLY DISTURB THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET .
18 IT MUST BE STATED IN THAT CONNECTION THAT , ON THE BASIS OF THE EXPERIENCE ACQUIRED IN THE PRECEDING YEARS , THE COMMISSION WAS ABLE TO FORESEE THAT , EVEN IF ABOUT 30 000 TONNES OF GREEK POTATOES HAD NOT BEEN IMPORTED , THE MARKET DEMAND , WHICH IN 1981 AND 1982 HAD STABILIZED AT ABOUT 90 000 TONNES IN JUNE , WOULD HAVE LED TO THEIR PLACE BEING TAKEN BY POTATOES FROM ELSEWHERE AND THE MARKET SITUATION WOULD NOT THEREBY HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED .
19 MOREOVER , IT WAS REASONABLE FOR THE COMMISSION TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT IN 1981 , WHEN THE MARKET PRICES WERE EVEN LOWER , THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT DID NOT CONSIDER THAT THERE WAS SERIOUS DISTURBANCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET .
20 IN VIEW OF THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES , IT MUST BE CONCLUDED THAT THE COMMISSION WAS JUSTIFIED IN CONSIDERING THAT THE FORESEEABLE FALL IN PRICES WOULD NOT BE DUE TO ' ' TRADE BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AS AT PRESENT CONSTITUTED AND GREECE ' ' , IN THE WORDS OF THE THIRD SUBPARAGRAPH OF ARTICLE 130 ( 2 ) OF THE ACT OF ACCESSION , AND THAT BY REFUSING TO AUTHORIZE THE APPLICATION OF A PROTECTIVE MEASURE IT DID NOT EXCEED THE LIMITS OF THE MARGIN OF DISCRETION ACCORDED TO IT FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC DATA .
21 THE APPLICANTS ALSO CLAIM THAT THE EXPORTS OF GREEK POTATOES WERE THE SUBJECT OF CONCERTED PRACTICES BETWEEN GREEK PRODUCERS AND EXPORTERS CONSTITUTING AN INFRINGEMENT OF ARTICLE 85 OF THE EEC TREATY AND THAT