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No L 198 /26 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 7. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1922/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 16 July 1973 fixing for the end 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 charac­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European teristics, on the representative market or markets situ­ Economic Community ; ated in the production areas where prices are lowest, for the products or varieties which represent a consid­ erable proportion of production marketed throughout Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the whole year which satisfy specified requirements as 1035/72 (*) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­ regards quality and market preparation ; whereas, tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last when the average of prices recorded on each represen­ amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in tative market is being calculated, prices which could particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; be considered excessively high or excessively low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that market are to be disregarded ; Whereas, under Article 23 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­ nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing year in respect of the whole marketing year ; Whereas, during the second part of the campaign an important part of the Community-produced cucum­ bers will still be grown under glass ; whereas the refer­ Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities ence price for the first part of the year must therefore in the Community that reference prices should be be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas cucum­ fixed for them ; bers imported from certain third countries during the same period will be obtained from end-of-year open crops ; whereas, although these cucumbers may be Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given produc­ classed in Class I, their quality and price are not tion campaign are marketed from January to comparable with those of products grown under glass ; December ; whereas for the present campaign the whereas the prices for cucumbers not grown under reference prices have already been fixed for the period glass should therefore be adjusted by a conversion from February till the month of June by Regulation factor : (EEC) No 537/73 (3) of 20 February 1973 ; whereas the information currently available allows these prices to be fixed until the end of the campaign ; whereas since Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation the quantities marketed in December represent only a are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ small portion of the tonnage marketed over the year ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ; as a whole, this month should not be taken into account ;

Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Member State plus an amount representing the costs of transporting Community products from production areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices should also be taken into account ; Article 1

Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ 1 . For the end of the 1973 marketing year, the refer­ ence price fixed for each of those periods ; ence prices for cucumbers (subheading No ex 07.01 P of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of 0) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147. account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I, 3) OJ No L 51 , 20 . 2. 1973, p. 19 . of all sizes, shall be as follows :

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— July 15-1 imported from third countries, shall, after deduction — August 16-5 of customs duties, be multiplied by 1-30. — September 1 6*5 — October 30-9 Article 2 — November 38-4 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 2. For the purpose of calculating the entry prices, following its publication in the Official Journal of the prices for cucumbers, not grown under glass, the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI