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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2396/84
of 20 August 1984
laying down detailed rules for drawing up the forward estimate in the wine sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 of 5 February 1979 on the common organization of the market in wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1208/84 (2), and in particular Article 5 (1) and (2) thereof,
Whereas Article 5 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 lays down that a forward estimate is to be drawn up before 10 December of each year for the purpose of determining the Community's resources and estimating its needs in the wine sector; whereas in order to comply with the above deadline it is necessary to fix the date by which the Member States must forward information to the Commission;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2102/84 of 13 July 1984 on harvest, production and stock declarations relating to wine-sector products (3) provides for information to be supplied enabling the forward estimate to be drawn up; whereas, in addition to the said information, the Member States are required to supply the Commission with any other information necessary for drawing up the forward estimate; whereas, in order to draw up as reliable a forward estimate as possible, consideration should be given to all other sources of information which may be deemed reliable; whereas the sources of information to be taken into consideration should therefore be determined;
Whereas Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 provides that the forward estimate must show the proportion of table wines and quality wines psr respectively; whereas, in order to make a more accurate appraisal of the Community's resources and requirements in wine, a breakdown of the different categories of wine should be made into white wine on the one hand and red and rosé wine on the other;
Whereas the circumstances in which recourse should be had to information other than that provided by the Member States should be determined;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The forward estimate shall be drawn up by the Commission on the basis of all the information available, in particular:
- information forwarded by the Member States,
- any other information which it considers reliable.
2. For the purposes of the first indent of paragraph 1, the Member States shall communicate to the Commission, not later than 30 November of the wine-growing year, at least the information referred to in tables A, B and C of the Annex hereto.
3. With regard to the information referred to in the second indent of paragraph 1, use shall be made of all sources of information available, and in particular:
(a) publications relating to production and distribution in the Member States,
(b) the trade organizations representing production and distribution in the Member States, and in particular those represented on the Advisory Committee on Wine.
Article 2
The information referred to in the second indent of Article 1 (1) shall be used only where a significant discrepancy likely to compromise the efficient management of the wine market is found to exist between the figures provided by the Member States as referred to in Article 1 (2) and the said information.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 August 1984.