CELEX: 31976R0248
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 248/76 of 4 February 1976 fixing for the months of February and March 1976 the reference prices for cucumbers

No L 30/ 8                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                5 . 2 . 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 248/76
                                                      of 4 February 1976
             fixing for the months of February and March 1976 the reference prices for
                                                          cucumbers
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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
Economic Community,                                               whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
                                                                  representative market is being calculated, prices which
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      could be considered excessively high or excessively
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                 low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                market are to be disregarded ;
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2482/75 (2 ), and in
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                              Whereas during February and March Community-pro­
                                                                  duced cucumbers are grown mainly under glass ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation               whereas the reference prices for these months must
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                  therefore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of               cucumbers imported from certain third countries will
the marketing year ;                                               have been grown in the open ; whereas, although such
                                                                  cucumbers may be classed in Class I , their quality and
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                  price are not comparable with those of products
in the Community that reference prices should be                  grown under glass ; whereas the prices for cucumbers
fixed for them ;                                                   not grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by
                                                                   a conversion factor ;
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop
year are marketed from January to December ;                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
whereas, for the present marketing year, on the infor­             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
mation currently available it is not possible to fix refer­        ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
ence prices beyond the month of March ; whereas the
quantities harvested in January and during the first 10
days of February are so small that there is no need to
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
fix reference prices for that period of the year ;
whereas reference prices should therefore be fixed
only for the period from 1 1 February ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal              1.      For the months of February and March 1976, th <
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                  reference prices for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 [
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                 of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units o
of transporting Community products from the produc­                account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                of all sizes, shall be as follows :
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
must also be taken into account ;                                  — February (1 1 to 20 ) :                  71.48 ,
                                                                                     21 to 29 :               59.94,
                                                                   — March :
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account , the
reference prices should be fixed by 10-day period for
 February and by month for March ;                                 2.      For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
                                                                   prices for cucumbers, not being products grown under
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                   glass, imported from third countries shall , after deduc­
                                                                   tion of customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion
average of the prices recorded on the representative               factor of 1 - 30 .
 market or markets situated in the production areas
where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
                                                                                              Article 2
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac
(') OJ No L 1 IS , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 February
(2 ) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 .                             1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 4 February 1976.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission
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