Commission Regulation (EC) No 2212/2001 of 15 November 2001 fixing a percentage for acceptance of contracts concluded for the optional distillation of table wine and suspending the notification of new contracts for the optional distillation of table wine
Date: 2001-11-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: application of EU law, contract, distillation, table wine, vinification, viticulture

L 300/8

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

16.11.2001

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2212/2001

of 15 November 2001

fixing a percentage for acceptance of contracts concluded for the optional distillation of table wine
and suspending the notification of new contracts for the optional distillation of table wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000
of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common
organisation of the market in wine with regard to market
mechanisms (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2047/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 63(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 63 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 lays down
the conditions for the application of
the distillation
arrangements for wines referred to in Article 29 of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (3), as
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 (4). Those
arrangements provide for subsidised, voluntary distilla-
tion in order to support the wine market and help
ensure continued supplies to the potable alcohol sector,
which traditionally uses this type of alcohol. To that
end, wine producers and distillers conclude contracts,
which the Member States notify to the Commission
twice a month.

Article 63(6) lays down the conditions under which the
Commission must
intervene in the contract-approval
procedure, setting a single percentage for acceptance of
contracts concluded for distillation and/or suspending
the notification of new contracts, notably where the
available budgetary resources or the absorption capacity
of the potable alcohol sector are exceeded or may be
exceeded.

For the 2001/02 wine year the Commission has, for
budgetary reasons and bearing in mind the absorption
capacity of the potable alcohol sector, set a limit of 7
million hl of table wine for the first tranche of contracts.
On the basis of the quantities of wine for which the
Member States notified new distillation contracts to the
Commission on 5 November 2001, the Commission
notes that that limit has been exceeded. The Commis-
sion should therefore set a single percentage for accep-
tance of
the quantities notified for distillation and
suspend the notification of new contracts until a second
distillation period is opened, the starting date for which
will depend on the evolution of the alcohol market and
available budget resources,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Contracts concluded and notified to the Commission
1.
under Article 63(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 on 5
November 2001 shall be accepted for 49,2 % of the wine
covered.

Notification to the Commission of new contracts under
2.
Article 63(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 is suspended
until a second distillation period is opened.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 15 November 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45.
(2) OJ L 276, 19.10.2001, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2.