No L 59/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 8. 3. 90 COMMISSION ‘-REGULATION (EEC) No 576/90 of 7 March 1990 fixing for the 1990 -marketing year the reference prices for courgettes THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, 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 1119/89 (3, and in particular Article - 27 (1) thereof, Whereas, pursuant to 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 ; Whereas courgettes are produced in such quantities in the Community that reference - prices should. be fixed for them; Whereas courgettes harvested during a given crop year are marketed from January to December ; whereas the quan- tities harvested from 1 January to 20 April and in October, November and December are so small that there is no need to fix reference prices for these periods; whereas reference prices should bé fixed only for the. period 21 April up to and including 30 September ; Whereas Article 23(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 stipulates that reference prices are to be fixed at the same level as for the preceding -marketing year, adjusted, after deducting the standard cost of transporting Community products - between production areas and Community- consumption centres -in the preceding year, by: — the increase in production costs for fruit and vegeta- bles, less productivity growth, and — the standard rate. of transport costs in the current - marketing year ; Whereas the resulting figure may nevertheless not exceed the arithmetic mean of producer prices-in each Member State plus transport costs for the current year, after this amount has been increased by the rise in production costs () OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. () O No L 118, 29. 4. 1989, p. 12. less productivity growth ; whereas the reference price may, however, not be lower than in the preceding marketing year; Whereas, to take seasonal price variations into account, the marketing year should be divided into several periods and a reference price fixed for each of these periods; Whereas- producer prices are to correspond to the average of the prices recorded on the representative market or markets situated in the production areas where prices.are lowest, during the three years prior to-the date on which the reference price-is fixed, for a home-grown product with defined commercial characteristics, being a product or variety representing-a substantial proportion of the production marketed over the year or over part thereof and satisfying specified requirements as regards market preparation ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each representative market is being calculated, prices which could be considered excessively high or excessively low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that market are to be disregarded; Whereas, in accordance with Article 272 (3) of the Act of Accession, the prices of Portuguese products will not-be. used for the purpose of calculating reference prices, during the first stage of the. Accession; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance - with the opinion of the Management Committee for. Fruit and Vegetables, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 For the 1990 marketing year, the reference prices for courgettes falling within' CN code 0709 90 70, expressed in ecu per 100 kilograms net of packed products of class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows : — April (21 t6".30): 71,79, — May: 63,12, — June: 42,18, — July: 38,63, — August : 44,99, — September: 49,68. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 April 1990.