CELEX: 31977R0858
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 858/77 of 27 April 1977 fixing the reference price for cucumbers for the month of May 1977

No L 104/28                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 4. 77
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 858/77
                                                      of 27 April 1977
                     fixing the reference price for cucumbers for the month of May 1977
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  teristics, being a product or variety representing a
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                 over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
                                                                 fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
 Economic Community,                                             representative market is being calculated, prices which
                                                                 could be considered excessively high or excessively
                                                                 low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    market are to be disregarded ;
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
 of the markets in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
 amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in              Whereas, during the month of May, Community-pro­
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                            duced cucumbers are grown mainly under glass ;
                                                                 whereas the reference price for this month must there­
                                                                 fore be fixed for a product of that type : whereas
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation             cucumbers imported from certain third countries will
 (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                have been grown in the open ; whereas, although such
 whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of             cucumbers may be classed in Class I, their quality and
 the marketing year ;                                            price are not comparable with those of products
                                                                 grown under glass ; whereas the price for cucumbers
                                                                 not grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by
 Whereas cucumbers produced in such quantities in                a conversion factor ;
 the Community that reference prices should be fixed
 for them ;
                                                                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 year are marketed from January to December ;
 whereas, for the present marketing year, the reference
 prices have already been fixed up-to 30 April by Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 256/77 of 4 February 1 977 (3) ;
 whereas with the information currently available it is          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 not possible to fix reference prices beyond the month
 of May ; whereas reference prices should therefore be
 fixed only for that month ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
( EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are fixed on              1 . For the month of May 1977, the reference price
 the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in          for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P of the
 each Member State plus an amount representing the               Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
 costs of transporting Community products from the               account per 100 kilograms net of packed products of
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;               Class 1 , of all sizes, shall be as follows : 41-00 .
 whereas the trend of average basic prices and
 buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;
                                                                 2. For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
                                                                 prices for cucumbers, not produced under glass,
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                 imported from third countries shall, after deduction of
average of the prices recorded on the representative             customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion factor
 market or markets situated in the production areas              of 1-30 .
where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
                                                                                          Article 2
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1
(2) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6 .
(3 ) OJ No L 34, 5 . 2. 1977, p. 52.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1977.
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        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
        States .
        Done at Brussels, 27 April 1977.
                                                               For the Commission
                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                   Vice-President