CELEX: 31977R1049
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1049/77 of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for cucumbers until the end of the 1977 marketing year

No L 125/30                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19 . 5. 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1049/77
                                                     of 18 May 1977
              fixing the reference price for cucumbers until the end of the 1977 marketing
                                                           year
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 1034/77 (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 256/77 of 4 February 1977 (3)              adjusted by a conversion factor ;
and (EEC) No 858 /77 of 27 April 1977 (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 average basic prices and buying­
in prices must also be taken into account ;                     1 . For the 1977 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 :                              29 - 1 9
average of the prices recorded on the representative                     July :                              21-63
                                                                         August :                            2412
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                                 September :                         25-82
(>) OJ No L 34, 5. 2. 1977, p. 52.                                       October :                           41-93
{*) OJ No L 104, 28. 4. 1977, p. 28.                                     November :                          50-73
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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price,            — from 1 June to 30 September 1.30,
the prices for cucumbers, not produced under glass,           — from 1 October to 30 November 1.00 .
imported from third countries shall, after deduction of
                                                                                     Article 2
customs duties, be multiplied by the following conver­
sion factors :                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1977.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 May 1977.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President