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II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Amendment of the proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) 
No 337/79 on the common organization of the market in wine (') 
COM(84) 539 final 
(Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragaph of Article 149 
of the EEC Treaty on 28 September 1984) 
(84/C 278/04) 
1. The following are added to the recitals: 
Whereas experience has shown that when one 
wine year's table wine production exceeds a 
certain volume no balance can be achieved on the 
table wine market; whereas current data indicates 
that the said limit, known as the guarantee 
threshold, may be set around 100 million 
hectolitres; 
Whereas the situation which has obtained on the 
table wine market for several wine years makes it 
necessary to adopt measures to achieve more direct 
control over production; whereas it also appears 
that the absorption of surpluses depends mainly on 
the implementation of compulsory distillation; 
whereas it is therefore necessary to provide for this 
measure to be triggered automatically where it is 
found, for the wine year in question, that 
production exceeds the guarantee threshold; 
Whereas wine production should not be 
encouraged in the absence of commercial outlets; 
whereas it therefore appears advisable to reduce 
the buying-in price of wine delivered for 
compulsory distillation, as its present level seems 
sufficiently attractive if not to encourage the 
creation of new vineyards at least to enable old 
vineyards to survive in the absence of any sales 
possibilities; 
Whereas it is only fair to apply severe measures to 
producers who obtain high yields, which are 
generally detrimental to product quality, and are 
thus responsible for a large proportion of the 
surpluses; whereas, therefore, in addition to an 
increase in the rate of liability to the obligation to 
distil by reference to individual yields, there should 
be a reduction in the buying-in price for part of 
the quantities to be delivered, in proportion to the 
said yields, 
(') OJ No C 259, 27. 9. 1984, p. 5. 2. Article 1 is hereby supplemented as follows: 
7. Article 41 is replaced by the following: 
Article 41 
1. There shall be a guarantee threshold for 
table wines. 
For the 1984/85, 1985/86 and 1986/87 wine 
years the threshold shall be 100 million 
hectolitres. 
The Council, acting by a qualified majority on 
a proposal from the Commission, shall fix the 
threshold for subsequent wine years. 
2. Where, in respect of a wine year, the data 
in the forward estimate shows: 
— that table wine production exceeds the 
guarantee threshold, or 
— that the availabilities recorded at the 
beginning of the wine year exceed by more 
than five months the normal utilization for 
that year, 
compulsory distillation of table wine shall be 
decided on. 
In calculating availabilities at the beginning of 
the wine year, as referred to in the second 
indent of the first subparagraph, account shall 
be taken of the quantities to be distilled under 
Articles 11 and 12a. 
However, such distillation shall not be decided 
on in wine years when the administrative 
burden it would entail would be dispro­
portionate to the results expected in view of the 
total quantity to be distilled. 
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3. The total quantity to be distilled must be 
such as to leave foreseeable end-of-year stocks 
at a level corresponding to five months' normal 
utilization calculated for the wine year in 
question. 
In determining the total quantity to be distilled, 
account shall be taken of the quantities subject 
to preventive distillation as referred to in Article 
11. 
Subject to the second subparagraph of 
paragraph 7, the quantity to be distilled in 
accordance with paragraph 2 shall, for each 
producer, be equal to a percentage of his 
production of table wine. 
This percentage: 
— shall be fixed not later than 31 January 
following the decision to carry out 
distillation, 
— shall be varied, in order to curb the increase 
in Community production, according to the 
yield per hectare of each producer in 
relation to the average yield obtained by 
Community table wine producers. The 
percentage may also be varied according to 
the type of table wine and the normal yield 
for the various wine-growing zones or parts 
of zones, where the breakdown of the 
harvest by type and zone makes this 
necessary. 
The quantity of table wine to be delivered for 
distillation by each producer shall be equal to 
that determined in accordance with the 
preceding subparagraph minus the quantity of 
table wine or wine suitable for yielding table 
wine delivered for distillation as referred to in 
Article 11. 
4. The buying-in price for the table wines to 
be delivered for compulsory distillation, in 
excess of the quantities delivered for distillation 
as referred to in Article 11, shall be 50 % of the 
guide price for each type of table wine. 
However, for wines from vineyards whose yield 
exceeds 140 hl/ha, the buying-in price shall be 
reduced to 33 % of the guide price in respect of 
a quantity to be determined. 
The buying-in prices shall also apply to wines in 
a close economic relationship with each of the 
types of table wine. The price paid by the 
distiller may not be lower than the buying-in 
price. 
5. Under the distillation operation referred 
to in this Article, the distiller may: 
— either receive aid in respect of the product 
to be distilled, provided that the product obtained from distillation has an alcoholic 
strength of at least 52 % vol, 
— or deliver the product obtained from 
distillation to the intervention agency, 
provided that it has an alcoholic strength of 
at least 92 % vol. 
However, 
— the Member States may stipulate that their 
intervention agencies will not buy in the 
product referred to in the second indent of 
the first subparagraph, 
— if table wine has been processed into wine 
fortified for distillation before delivery for 
distillation, the aid referred to in the first 
indent of the first subparagraph shall be 
paid to the manufacturer of the fortified 
wine and the product of the distillation may 
not be delivered to the intervention agency. 
A buying-in price shall be fixed for neutral 
spirits with characteristics to be determined. 
The buying-in price of the other products of 
distillation which can be taken over by the 
intervention agency shall be fixed on the basis 
of the buying-in price referred to in the third 
subparagraph but varied to take account, in 
particular, of costs necessarily entailed in 
processing the relevant product into neutral 
spirits. 
6. The Council, acting by a qualified 
majority on a proposal from the Commission, 
shall adopt general rules for the application of 
this Article. 
These rules shall include: 
— the conditions under which distillation is to 
be carried out, 
— the criteria for determining the amount of 
aid which will enable the products obtained 
to be disposed of, 
— the criteria for fixing the buying-in prices of 
the products of distillation which can be 
taken over by the intervention agencies. 
7. Decisions to carry out the distillation 
referred to in paragraph 2, the quantity and the 
percentages referred to in paragraph 3, the 
quantity and the threshold referred to in the 
second subparagraph of paragraph 4, the 
amount of the aid and the prices referred to in 
paragraph 5 and detailed rules for the 
application of this Article shall be adopted in 
accordance with the procedure laid down in 
Article 67. 
Measures involving partial or total exemption 
from the obligation referred to in paragraph 3 
for producers who have, during the relevant 
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wine year, obtained a quantity of wine not procedure, in particular so as to alleviate the 
exceeding a quantity to be determined shall be administrative burden arising from the 
adopted in accordance with the same application of this Article.' 
Proposal for a Council Decision determining the general guidelines for 1985 concerning 
financial and technical aid to non-associated developing countries 
COM(84) 526 final 
(Submitted to the Council by the Commission on 4 October 1984) 
(84/C 278/05) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 442/81 of 17 February 1981 on 
financial and technical aid to non-associated developing countries (*), and in particular 
Article 9 (2) thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Whereas the general guidelines for the administration of financial and technical aid by 
the Commission to non-associated developing countries to be followed in 1985 should be 
determined, 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article 1 
The 1984 guidelines are hereby renewed for 1985. 
0) OJNoL48, 21.2. 1981, p. 8. 
Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2925/78 as regards 
the period of suspension of application of the price condition to which imports into the 
Community of certain types of citrus fruit originating in Spain are subject 
COM(84) 528 final 
(Submitted to the Council by the Commission on 5 October 1984) 
(84/C 278/06) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in 
particular Article 43 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,