Council Regulation (EC) No 1630/98 of 20 July 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 on the granting, for the 1988/89 to 1997/98 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas
Date: 1998-07-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: abandoned land, grubbing premium, marketing year, vineyard, viticulture

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1630/98

of 20 July 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 on the granting, for the 1988/89 to
1997/98 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-
growing areas

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-
ment (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),

Whereas the encouragement of the permanent abandon-
ment of wine-growing areas by the grant of premiums is
provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 (4);

Whereas, pending adoption of the reform of the common
organisation of the market in wine, the existing scheme
for the grant of permanent abandonment premiums in
respect of wine-growing areas should be extended, whilst
limiting the total area that may be covered by it;

Whereas Article 3(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88
excludes from the permanent abandonment premium
areas of less than 25 ares, except in the special case where
they constitute the whole of the cultivated wine-growing
area of the holding concerned; whereas experience has
shown that this threshold may prove to be too high in
certain wine-growing regions a feature of which is
the growth area; whereas
advanced fragmentation of
Member States should be allowed to fix a threshold for
these regions of less than 25 but not less than 10 ares,

(1) OJ C 87, 23. 3. 1998, p. 16.
(2) OJ C 210, 6. 7. 1998.
(3) OJ C 214, 10. 7. 1998.
(4) OJ L 132, 28. 5. 1988, p. 3. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 191/98 (OJ L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 15).

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 is amended as follows:

1. the title shall be replaced by the following:

‘Council Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 of 24 May
1988 on the granting, for the 1988/1989 to 1998/1999
wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in
respect of wine-growing areas';

2. in the introductory wording to the second subpara-
graph of Article 1(1), the words ‘1996/97 and 1997/98
marketing years' shall be replaced by ‘1996/1997,
1997/1998 and 1998/1999 marketing years';

3. the

following subparagraphs

shall be

added to

Article 3:

‘However, by way of derogation from (a) in the first
subparagraph, Member States may make provision for
the grant of a permanent abandonment premium for
areas equal to, or more than, 10 ares.

In this case, the amount of the premium per hectare
shall be fixed on the basis of the yield according to the
scales established in Article 2(1)(b).';

4. in the first subparagraph of Article 11,

‘at the earliest
by 31 July 1998 and at the latest by 31 December
1999' shall be replaced by ‘at the earliest by 31 July
1999 and at the latest by 31 December 2000';

5. in the third subparagraph of Article 17a, ‘15 May 1998'

shall be replaced by ‘15 May 1999'.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

However Article 1(5) shall apply from 15 May 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 July 1998.

For the Council

The President

W. MOLTERER