CELEX: 31973R1922
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1922/73 of the Commission of 16 July 1973 fixing for the end of the 1973 marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers

No L 198 /26                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              18 . 7. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1922/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 16 July 1973
              fixing for the end of the 1973 marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                      average of the prices recorded during the three years
                                                                  prior to the date for fixing the reference price for a
                                                                  home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             teristics, on the representative market or markets situ­
Economic Community ;                                              ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,
                                                                  for the products or varieties which represent a consid­
                                                                  erable proportion of production marketed throughout
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      the whole year which satisfy specified requirements as
1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­                regards quality and market preparation ; whereas,
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last               when the average of prices recorded on each represen­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                tative market is being calculated, prices which could
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                             be considered excessively high or excessively low in
                                                                  relation to normal price fluctuations on that market
                                                                  are to be disregarded ;
Whereas, under Article 23 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­
nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing
year in respect of the whole marketing year ;                     Whereas, during the second part of the campaign an
                                                                  important part of the Community-produced cucum­
                                                                  bers will still be grown under glass ; whereas the refer­
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                 ence price for the first part of the year must therefore
in the Community that reference prices should be                  be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas cucum­
fixed for them ;                                                  bers imported from certain third countries during the
                                                                  same period will be obtained from end-of-year open
                                                                  crops ; whereas, although these cucumbers may be
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given produc­                classed in Class I, their quality and price are not
tion campaign are marketed from January to                        comparable with those of products grown under glass ;
December ; whereas for the present campaign the                   whereas the prices for cucumbers not grown under
reference prices have already been fixed for the period           glass should therefore be adjusted by a conversion
from February till the month of June by Regulation                factor :
(EEC) No 537/73 (3) of 20 February 1973 ; whereas the
information currently available allows these prices to
be fixed until the end of the campaign ; whereas since            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
the quantities marketed in December represent only a              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
small portion of the tonnage marketed over the year               ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
as a whole, this month should not be taken into
account ;
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of transporting Community products from production
areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the
trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
should also be taken into account ;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
ence price fixed for each of those periods ;                       1 . For the end of the 1973 marketing year, the refer­
                                                                  ence prices for cucumbers (subheading No ex 07.01 P
0) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
                                                                  of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.                          account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I,
 3) OJ No L 51 , 20 . 2. 1973, p. 19 .                            of all sizes, shall be as follows :
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— July                  15-1                               imported from third countries, shall, after deduction
— August                16-5                               of customs duties, be multiplied by 1-30.
— September              1 6*5
— October               30-9                                                       Article 2
— November              38-4
                                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
2. For the purpose of calculating the entry prices,        following its publication in the Official Journal of
the prices for cucumbers, not grown under glass,           the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI