CELEX: 31978R0244
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 244/78 of 6 February 1978 fixing for the months of February to April 1978 the reference prices for cucumbers

7 . 2. 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 37/ 11
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 244/78
                                                       of 6 February 1978
              fixing for the months of February to April 1978 the reference prices for
                                                           cucumbers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      substantial proportion of the production marketed
COMMUNITIES,                                                        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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                   market are to be disregarded ;
of the markets in fruit and vegetables ('), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                  Whereas during February to April Community-
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                                produced cucumbers are grown mainly under glass ;
                                                                    whereas the reference prices for these months must
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                 therefore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                    cucumbers imported from certain third countries will
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of                 have been grown in the open ; whereas, although such
the marketing year ;                                                cucumbers may be classed in Class I, their quality and
                                                                    price are not comparable with those of products
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                   grown under glass ; whereas the prices for cucumbers
in the Community that reference prices should be                    not grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by
fixed for them ;                                                    a conversion factor ;
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
year are marketed from January to December ;                        are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
whereas, for the present marketing year, on the infor­              ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
mation currently available it is not possible to fix refer­
ence prices beyond the month of April ; 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 to April 1978 , the
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                   reference prices for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                  of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
of transporting Community products from the produc­                 account per 100 kilograms net of packed products of
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                 Class I , of all sizes, shall be as follows :
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices              — February ( 11 to 20) :                   74.17
must also be taken into account ;
                                                                                    (21 to 28 :                62.63
                                                                    — March :                                  62.63
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
                                                                    — April :                                  50-47
reference prices should be fixed by 10-day period for
February and by month for March and April ;
                                                                    2. For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                    prices for cucumbers, not being products grown under
average of the prices recorded on the representative                glass, imported from third countries shall, after deduc­
market or markets situated in the production areas                  tion of customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion
                                                                    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
teristics, being a product or variety representing a
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 February
(2 ) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p . 1 .                             1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 6 February 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President