31974R0425
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 February of transporting Community products from production — 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 March : 45-6 should also be taken into account ; 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 July : 16-4 ence price fixed for each of those periods ; 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, Article 2 when the average of prices recorded on each represen 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