CELEX: 31978R0823
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 823/78 of 25 April 1978 fixing the reference price for cucumbers for the month of May 1978

26 . 4. 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 114/5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 823/78
                                                          of 25 April 1978
                      fixing the reference price for cucumbers for the month of May 1978
 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 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                   Whereas during the month of May Community­
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                                 produced 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 are produced in such quantities                    a conversion factor ;
 in 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 244/78 of 6 February 1978 (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 1978 , 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 I , of all sizes, shall be as follows : 41-83 .
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
average of the prices recorded on the representative                 of customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion
market or markets situated in the production areas                   factor 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 1 1 8 , 20 . 5 . 1 972, p. 1 .
(>) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p . 1 .
(}) OJ No L 37, 7. 2 . 1978 , p. 11 .                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 25 April 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President