CELEX: 31974R0425
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 425/74 of the Commission of 20 February 1974 fixing the reference prices for cucumbers for the 1974 marketing year

21 . 2. 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 49/ 11
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 425/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 20 February 1974
                    fixing the reference prices for cucumbers for the 1974 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    be considered excessively high or excessively low in
COMMUNITIES,                                                      relation to normal price fluctuations on that market
                                                                  are to be disregarded ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                              Whereas, the Community-produced cucumbers are
                                                                  mainly cultivated under glass ; whereas the reference
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      price for the marketing season must therefore be fixed
1035/72 ( 5 ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­              for a product of that type ; whereas cucumbers
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last               imported from certain third countries during the same
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                period will be obtained from end-of-year open crops ;
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                             whereas, although these cucumbers may be classed in
                                                                  Class I, their quality and price are not comparable
Whereas, under Article 23(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No              with those of products grown under glass ; whereas
1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­              the prices for cucumbers not grown under glass
nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing            should therefore be adjusted by a conversion factor ;
year ;
                                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
in the Community that reference prices should be                  ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
fixed for them ;
Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop
year are marketed from January to December, whereas               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the quantities harvested in January during the first 10
days of February and also December are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for the whole                                    Article 1
year ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only
for the period from 1 1 February to 30 November ;                 1.    For the 1974 marketing year, the reference
                                                                  prices for cucumbers (subheading No ex 07.01 P of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                 the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal             account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I,
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                 of all sizes, shall be as follows :
Member State plus an amount representing the costs
of transporting Community products from production                        February
                                                                          — 1 1 to 20 :                      61-9
areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the
                                                                          — 21 to 28 :                       48-6
trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
should also be taken into account ;                                       March :                            45-6
                                                                          April :                            35-5
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the                    May :                              29-2
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­                  June :                             20-3
ence price fixed for each of those periods ;                              July :                             16-4
                                                                          August :                           18-3
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the                      September :                        19-6
average of the prices recorded during the three years                     October :                          31-9
prior to the date for fixing the reference price for a                    November :                         40-9
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
teristics, on the representative market or markets situ­          2. For the purpose of calculating the entry prices,
ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,             the prices for cucumbers, not grown under glass,
for the products or varieties which represent a consid­           imported from third countries, shall, after deduction
erable proportion of production marketed throughout               of customs duties, be multiplied by 1-30 .
the whole year which satisfy specified requirements as
regards quality and market preparation ; whereas,
when the average of prices recorded on each represen­                                     Article 2
tative market is being calculated, prices which could
                                                                  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, 20 February 1974.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI