Commission Regulation (EC) No 2647/1999 of 15 December 1999 authorising the conclusion of long-term private storage contracts for table wine, grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified concentrated grape must in respect of the 1999/2000 wine year
Date: 1999-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: contract, fruit product, grape, private stock, storage, table wine

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2647/1999

of 15 December 1999

authorising the conclusion of long-term private storage contracts for table wine, grape must,
concentrated grape must and rectified concentrated grape must in respect of the 1999/2000 wine
year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation of the
market in wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1677/1999 (2), and in particular Articles 32(5) and 83 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

the forward estimate drawn up for the 1999/2000 wine
year indicates that the quantities of table wine available
at the beginning of the wine year exceed by more than
four months' supply those normally used up over the
year. The conditions for authorisation of
long-term
storage contracts specified in Article 32(4) of Regulation
(EEC) No 822/87 are therefore met;

the abovementioned forward estimate indicates the exis-
tence of surpluses of all types of table wine and of table
wines which stand in close economic relationship to
those types of table wine. The possibility of concluding
long-term storage contracts for those types of table wine
should therefore be provided for. It is necessary by the
same token to open this possibility for grape must,
concentrated grape must and rectified concentrated
grape must;

the market for must and concentrated must for grape
juice production is expanding and to promote uses of
vine products other than winemaking permission should
be granted for must and concentrated grape must placed
under a storage contract covered by Commission Regu-
lation (EEC) No 1059/83 (3), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1262/96 (4), that is intended for grape juice
production to be sold from the fifth month of
the
contract onwards on simple notification by the producer
to the intervention agency; whereas to promote export
of these products this same possibility should apply;

(4)

the measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Wine,

(1) OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 199, 30.7.1999, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 116, 30.4.1983, p. 77.
(4) OJ L 163, 2.7.1996, p. 18.

During the period 16 December 1999 to 15 February 2000,
long-term private storage contracts may be concluded,
in
accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/
83, for:

— table wines, provided that the conditions of Article 6(3) of

that Regulation are met, and

— grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified concen-

trated grape must.

Article 2

The minimum quality conditions that must be met by table
wines which may be covered by a storage contract shall be as
set out in the Annex hereto.

By derogation to Article 6(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83,
table wines produced in Portugal must have a reduced sugar
level not greater than 4 grams per litre.

Article 3

Producers who, within the limits laid down in the first subpara-
graph of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83, wish to
conclude a long-term storage contract for a table wine shall,
when submitting applications for conclusion of a contract,
advise the intervention agency of the total quantity of table
wine they have produced during the current wine year.

For this purpose producers shall submit a copy of the produc-
tion declaration(s) drawn up pursuant to Article 3 of Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1294/96 (5).

Article 4

1.
For the 1999/2000 wine year, producers who have not
applied for an advance pursuant to Article 14(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1059/83 may, from the first day of the fifth month
of storage onwards, sell the grape must or concentrated grape
must in question for exportation or for production of grape
juice.

(5) OJ L 166, 5.7.1996, p. 14.

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In such cases producers shall inform the intervention agency in accordance with the terms of Article

2.
1a of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83.

The intervention agency shall check that the must or concentrated grape must is turned into grape juice or
exported.

Use of the products referred to in paragraph 1 for the purposes laid down shall be regarded as total if such
use covers at least 97 % of the quantities under storage contract.

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

Article 5

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

MINIMUM QUALITY CONDITIONS FOR TABLE WINES

(a) minimum actual alcoholic strength:

10,5 % vol;

(b) maximum volatile acidity:

(c) maximum sulphur dioxide content:

9 milli-equivalents per litre;

155 milligrams per litre.

I. White wines

(a) minimum actual alcoholic strength:

10,5 % vol;

(b) maximum volatile acidity:

(c) maximum sulphur dioxide content:

11 multi-equivalents per litre;

115 milligrams per litre.

II. Red wines

Rosé wines must comply with the conditions laid down above for red wines except as regards their sulphur dioxide
content to which the same maximums as those fixed for white wines apply.

Conditions (a) and (c) do not apply to table wines of types R IIII, A II and A III.