31976R0625

20 . 3 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 74/ 11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 625/76 of 19 March 1976 fixing the reference price for cucumbers until the end of the 1976 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN market or markets situated in the production areas COMMUNITIES, where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European home-grown product with defined commercial charac­ Economic Community, teristics, being a product or variety representing a substantial proportion of the production market over the year or over part thereof and satisfying specified Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No requirements as regards market preparation ; whereas 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization when the average of prices recorded on each represen­ of the market in fruit and vegetables (! ), as last tative market is being calculated prices which could amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in be considered excessively high or excessively low in particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof, 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 Whereas, Community produced cucumbers are grown year ; mainly in greenhouses ; whereas the reference prices for the marketing year must therefore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas cucumbers imported Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities from certain third countries during the same period in the Community that reference prices should be fixed for them ; will have been grown in the open ; whereas, although such cucumbers may be classed in Class I, their quality and price are not comparable with those of Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop products grown in greenhouses ; whereas the prices year are marketed from January to December ; for cucumbers not grown in greenhouses should there­ whereas with regard to the present marketing year the fore be adjusted by a conversion factor ; reference prices have already been fixed up to 31 March by Regulation (EEC) No 248 /76 of 4 February Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 1976 (3) ; whereas the information now available are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ allows these prices to be fixed up to the end of the ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, marketing year ; whereas the low quantities which are harvested during December represent only a small percentage of the tonnage which is marketed throughout the marketing year ; whereas that month should not therefore be taken into account ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

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 Article 1 Member State plus an amount representing the costs of transporting Community products from production areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the 1 . For the 1976 marketing year, the reference price trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P of the must also be taken into account ; Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows : Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ ence price fixed for each of these periods ; — April 47-78 — May 40-27 — June 28-06 Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the — July 20-79 average of the prices recorded on the representative — August 23-19 — September 24-82 (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . — October 40-31 (2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 . (3) OJ No L 30, 5. 2. 1976, p. 8 . — November 48-78 .

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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price, Article 2 the prices for cucumbers, not produced in green­ houses, imported from third countries shall, after deduction of customs duties, be multiplied by the following conversion factors : — from 1 April to 30 September 1 -30 ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April — from 1 October to 30 November 1-00 . 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 19 March 1976 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission