16. 6. 88~ Official Journal of the European Communities No L' 150/21 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1677/88 of 15 June 1988 laying down quality standards- for cucumbers THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European . Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72- of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1117/88 (3), and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof, , Whereas Council Regulatibn No . 183/64/EEC (*) lays down quality standards for cucumbers ; Whereas a change has occurred in the production and marketing of those products, particularly as regards the requirements of consumer and wholesale markets; whereas the common quality standards’ for cucumbers should therefore be changed to take those new requirements into account; Whereas such changes entail alteration of the definition of the supplementary quality class as laid down by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1194/69 (*) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 79/88(%); whereas account should be taken, in defining that class, of the economic importance to producers of the products concerned and of the need to meet consumer requirements ; Whereas the standards are applicable at all stages of marketing ; whereas transportation over a long distance, storage for a certain length of time or the various handling operations may bring about deterioration due to the biological development of the products or their tendency to perish ; whereas, therefore, account should be taken of such deterioration when applying the standards of marketing stages following dispatch ; Whereas in the interests of clarity and certainty as to legal requirements and for ease of use the standards thus changed should be consolidated in a single text; () OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. () OJ No L 107, 28. 4. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No 192, 25. 11. 1964, p. 3217/64. () OJ No L 157, 28. 6. 1969, p. 1. () OJ No L 10, 14. 1. 1988, p. 8. Whereas the measures. provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, 4 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The quality standards for cucumbers, falling within subheading 0707 00 11 and 0707 00 19 of the combined nomenclature shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. Those standards shall apply at all marketing stages, under the conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72. However, at stages following dispatch the products may show, in relation to the standards prescribed a slight lack of freshness and turgescence and slight alteration due to their biological development and their tendency to perish. Article 2 Regulation No 183/64/EEC is hereby amended _as follows : — the second indent of Article 1 (2) is deleted, — Annex I/2 is deleted. Article’ 3 Regulation (EEC) No 1194/69 is hereby amended as follows : — in Article 1, the words ‘and cucumbers’ are deleted, — Annex VII is deleted. Article 4 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1989.