CELEX: 31973R0537
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 537/73 of the Commission of 20 February 1973 fixing for the first part of the 1973 marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers

24 . 2 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 51 / 19
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 537/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 20 February 1973
              fixing for the first part of the 1973 marketing year the reference prices for cucumbers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       average of the prices recorded during the three
                                                                   years prior to the date for fixing the reference price
                                                                   for a home-grown product with defined commercial
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                 characteristics, on the representative market or
pean Economic Community ;                                          markets situated in the production areas where
                                                                   prices are lowest, for the products or varieties
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   which represent a considerable proportion of
1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiz­                  production marketed throughout the whole year
ation of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last               which satisfy specified requirements as regards
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 2745 /72 (2 ), and                 quality and market preparation ; whereas, when the
in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                           average of prices recorded on each representative
                                                                   market is being calculated, prices which could be
                                                                   considered excessively high or excessively low in
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                relation to normal price fluctuations on that market
(EEC) No 1035 /72, reference prices valid for the                  are to be disregarded ;
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning
of the marketing year in respect of the whole                      Whereas Community-produced cucumbers marketed
marketing year ;                                                   between now and June will be grown mainly under
                                                                   glass ; whereas the reference price for the first part
                                                                   of the year must therefore be fixed for a product of
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                  that type ; whereas cucumbers imported from
in the Community that reference prices should be                   certain third countries during the same period will
fixed for them ;                                                   be obtained from end-of-year open crops ; whereas,
                                                                   although these cucumbers may be classed in Class I,
                                                                   their quality and price are not comparable with
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop                    those of products grown under glass ; whereas the
year are marketed from January to December ;                       prices for cucumbers not grown under glass should
whereas for the present marketing year information                  therefore be adjusted by a conversion factor ;
currently available makes it impossible to fix refer­
ence prices only for the period until the month of                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
June ; whereas, since the quantities marketed in                   tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
January represent only a small portion of the                      Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
tonnage marketed over the year as a whole, the
reference price should be fixed only for the period
from February ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                                           Article 1
(EEC) No 1035 /72 the reference prices are to be
equal to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in                  1.    For the beginning of the 1973 marketing year,
each Member State plus an amount representing the                  the reference prices for cucumbers ( subheading No
costs of transporting Community products from                      ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff),
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                  expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of
 whereas the trend of average basic prices and                      packed products of Class I, of all sizes, shall be as
buying-in prices should also be taken into account ;                follows :
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account,                       February                                51-6
the year should be divided into several periods and                      March                                   45-6
 a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;
                                                                         April                                   35-0
                                                                         May                                     28-8
 (*) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .
 ( 2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.                               June                                    18-2
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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry prices,                                Article 2
the prices for cucumbers, not grown under glass,            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
imported from third countries, shall, after deduction       following its publication in the Official Journal of
of customs duties, be multiplied by 1-30.                   the European Commmunities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 20 February 1973 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI