31978R1178

No L 145/40 1 . 6 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1178 /78 of 31 May 1978 fixing until the end of the 1978 marketing year the reference price for cucum­ bers

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 marketed Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­ 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization fied requirements as regards market preparation ; of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last whereas when the average of prices recorded on each amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 54/78 (2), and in representative market is being calculated, prices which particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ; could be considered excessively high or excessively low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No market are to be disregarded ; 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 under glass ; whereas the reference prices for the marketing year must therefore be fixed for a Whereas cucumbers are produced in such quantities product of that type ; whereas cucumbers imported in the Community that reference prices should be from certain third countries during the same period fixed for them ; will have been grown in the open ; whereas, although such cucumbers may be classed in Class I, their Whereas cucumbers harvested during a given crop quality and price are not comparable with those of year are marketed from January to December ; products grown under glass ; whereas the prices for whereas for the present marketing year the reference cucumbers not grown under glass should therefore be prices have respectively been fixed up to 31 May by adjusted by a conversion factor ; Regulations (EEC) No 244/78 of 6 February 1978 (3) and (EEC) No 823/78 of 25 April 1978 (4) ; whereas the information now available allows these prices to Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation be fixed up to the end of the marketing year ; whereas are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ the low quantities which are harvested during ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, 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 ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member State plus an amount representing the costs of transporting Community products from Article 1 production areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and vegetable sector must also be taken into account ; 1 . For the 1978 marketing year, the reference price for cucumbers (subheading ex 07.01 P of the Whereas , to take seasonal variations into account, the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of year should be divided into several periods and a refer­ account per 100 kilograms net of packed products of ence price fixed for each of these periods ; Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows :

Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the 30-72 June : average of the prices recorded on the representative 22-75 July : August : 25-37 (•) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 . 27-17 September : (2 ) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5 . 1978 , p. 5 . October : 44-16 (3 ) OJ No L 37, 7 . 2. 1978 , p. 11 . «) OJ No L 114, 26 . 4 . 1978 , p. 5 . November : 53-45

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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price, — from 1 October to 30 November : 1.00 . the prices for cucumbers not produced under glass, imported from third countries, shall, after deduction of customs duties, be multiplied by the following Article 2 conversion factors : — from 1 June to 30 September : 1 -30, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 May 1978 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President