CELEX: 31975R0317
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 317/75 of the Commission of 7 February 1975 fixing for the month of February 1975 reference prices for cucumbers

8 . 2. 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 35/21
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 317/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 7 February 1975
                    fixing for the month of February 1975 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
1 035/72 (') of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­              low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last              market are to be disregarded ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in
particular Article 27(1 ) thereof ;                              Whereas Community produced cucumbers marketed
                                                                 during the month of February will have been grown
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23(1 ) of Regulation                mainly in hothouses ; whereas the reference prices for
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                 that month must therefore be fixed for a product of
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of              that type ; whereas cucumbers imported from certain
the marketing year in respect of the whole marketing             third countries during this period come from end-of­
year ;                                                           year crops grown in the open ; whereas, although such
                                                                 cucumber may be classed in Class I, their quality and
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                 price are not comparable with those of hothouse
in the Community that reference prices should be                  products ; whereas the prices for non-hothouse cucum­
fixed for them ;                                                 bers 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 information               are in accordance with the Oprnion of the Manage­
currently available makes it impossible to fix reference          ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
prices for the period beyond the month of February ;
whereas, since the quantities marketed in January and
during the first 10 days of February represent only a
small portion of the tonnage marketed over the year               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
as a whole, reference prices should be fixed only for
the period 11 to 28 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 month of February 1975 the reference
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                 prices for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P of the
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
of transporting Community products from production                account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I,
areas to Community marketing centres ;                            of all sizes, shall be as follows :
Whereas the trend of average basic prices and                    — February
buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;
                                                                      ( 11 to 20) 67-34
Whereas, to take seasonal price variations into                         21 to 28) 56-79
account, the reference price should be fixed by 10-day
periods ;                                                         2.     For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
                                                                  prices for non-hothouse cucumbers imported from
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                  third countries shall , after deduction      of customs
average of the prices recorded on the representative              duties, be multiplied by a factor of 1 -30 .
market or markets situated in the production areas
where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
                                                                                          Article 2
the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            following its publication in the Official Journal of
(2 ) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147 .                        the European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 7 February 1975.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission