CELEX: 31978R1178
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1178/78 of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978 marketing year the reference price for cucumbers

No L 145/40                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 6 . 78
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1178/78
                                                           of 31 May 1978
               fixing until the end of the 1978 marketing year the reference price for cucum­
                                                                 bers
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       market or markets situated in the production areas
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
                                                                      the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
 Economic Community,                                                  teristics, being a product or variety representing a
                                                                      substantial proportion of the production marketed
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                    fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                   whereas when the average of prices recorded on each
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 54/78 (2), and in                 representative market is being calculated, prices which
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                                could be considered excessively high or excessively
                                                                      low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                market are to be disregarded ;
 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­
 nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing
 year ;
                                                                      Whereas Community-produced cucumbers are grown
                                                                      mainly under glass ; whereas the reference prices for
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                     the marketing year must therefore be fixed for a
 in the Community that reference prices should be                     product of that type ; whereas cucumbers imported
 fixed for them ;                                                     from certain third countries during the same period
                                                                      will have been grown in the open ; whereas, although
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop                       such cucumbers may be classed in Class I, their
year are marketed from January to December ;                          quality and price are not comparable with those of
whereas for the present marketing year the reference                  products grown under glass ; whereas the prices for
 prices have respectively been fixed up to 31 May by                  cucumbers not grown under glass should therefore be
Regulations (EEC) No 244/78 of 6 February 1978 (3)                    adjusted by a conversion factor ;
and (EEC) No 823/78 of 25 April 1978 (4) ; whereas
the information now available allows these prices to                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
be fixed up to the end of the marketing year ; whereas                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
the low quantities which are harvested during                         ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 December represent only a small percentage of the
tonnage which is marketed throughout the marketing
year ; whereas that month should not therefore be
taken into account ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in
each Member State plus an amount representing the
costs of transporting Community products from                                                  Article 1
production areas to Community marketing centres ;
whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and
vegetable sector must also be taken into account ;                    1 . For the 1978 marketing year, the reference price
                                                                      for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P of the
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the                Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­              account per 100 kilograms net of packed products of
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                          Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows :
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                               June :                              30-72
average of the prices recorded on the representative                          July :                               22-75
                                                                               August :                            25-37
(•)  OJ No  L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972,  p. 1 .                                     September :                         27-17
(2 ) OJ No  L 144, 31 .  5 . 1978 , p. 5 .
                                                                               October :                           44-16
(3 ) OJ No  L 37, 7 . 2.  1978 , p.  11 .
 «)  OJ No  L 114, 26 .  4 . 1978 , p. 5 .                                     November :                          53-45
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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price,         — from 1 October to 30 November : 1.00 .
the prices for cucumbers not produced under glass,
imported from third countries, shall, after deduction
of customs duties, be multiplied by the following                                 Article 2
conversion factors :
— from 1 June to 30 September : 1 -30,                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 31 May 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President