CELEX: 31976R0625
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 625/76 of 19 March 1976 fixing the reference price for cucumbers until the end of the 1976 marketing year

20 . 3 . 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 74/ 11
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 625/76
                                                     of 19 March 1976
              fixing the reference price for cucumbers until the end of the 1976 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 market over
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     the year or over part thereof and satisfying specified
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                requirements as regards market preparation ; whereas
of the market in fruit and vegetables (!), as last
                                                                 when the average of prices recorded on each represen­
                                                                 tative market is being calculated prices which could
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in
                                                                 be considered excessively high or excessively low in
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                 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           Whereas, Community produced cucumbers are grown
year ;                                                           mainly in greenhouses ; whereas the reference prices
                                                                 for the marketing year must therefore be fixed for a
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                 product of that type ; whereas cucumbers imported
in the Community that reference prices should be                  from certain third countries during the same period
fixed for them ;                                                 will have been grown in the open ; whereas, although
                                                                  such cucumbers may be classed in Class I, their
                                                                  quality and price are not comparable with those of
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop                   products grown in greenhouses ; whereas the prices
year are marketed from January to December ;                      for cucumbers not grown in greenhouses should there­
whereas with regard to the present marketing year the             fore be adjusted by a conversion factor ;
reference prices have already been fixed up to 31
March by Regulation (EEC) No 248 /76 of 4 February                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 1976 (3) ; whereas the information now available                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
allows these prices to be fixed up to the end of the              ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
marketing year ; whereas the low quantities which are
 harvested during 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 ;                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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                                        Article 1
 Member State plus an amount representing the costs
 of transporting Community products from production
 areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the                1 . For the 1976 marketing year, the reference price
 trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices               for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P of the
 must also be taken into account ;                                Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
                                                                  account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I,
 Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the           of all sizes, shall be as follows :
 year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
 ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                              —  April                        47-78
                                                                           —  May                          40-27
 Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                          —  June                          28-06
 average of the prices recorded on the representative                      —  July                         20-79
                                                                           —  August                        23-19
 (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                                    —  September                     24-82
 (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 .                                    — October                       40-31
 (3) OJ No L 30, 5. 2. 1976, p. 8 .                                        — November                        48-78 .
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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price,                               Article 2
the prices for cucumbers, not produced in green­
houses, imported from third countries shall, after
deduction of customs duties, be multiplied by the
following conversion factors :
— from 1 April to 30 September 1 -30 ;                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
— from 1 October to 30 November 1-00 .                     1976 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 19 March 1976.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                Member of the Commission