Commission Regulation (EC) No 1710/2003 of 26 September 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms
Date: 2003-09-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: application of EU law, common organisation of markets, vinification, viticulture

L 243/98

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

27.9.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1710/2003

of 26 September 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation
(EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market
mechanisms

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
in
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 (2),
and in particular Article 33 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Title III, Chapter II of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1623/2000 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1411/2003 (4), governs the application of the aid scheme
for the distillation of wine to produce potable alcohol.

That chapter sets,
inter alia, the period during which
distillation is opened and the volume of wine covered by
distillation contracts which may be distilled before the
final approval date. On the basis of experience acquired
during the previous wine year, it has been found neces-
sary to amend the period and the volume of wine.

The chapter also provides for the setting of a percentage
of production with which producers may participate in
such distillation. The percentage for the wine year 2003/
04 should be set.

Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 should be amended
accordingly.

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

Article 1

Article 63a of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 is hereby
amended as follows:

1. Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The distillation of table wine and wine suitable for
yielding table wine referred to in Article 29 of Regulation
(EC) No 1493/1999 shall be opened for the period from 1
October to 31 December each wine year.’

2. In paragraph 2, the first subparagraph is replaced by the

following:
‘The volume of table wine and wine suitable for yielding
table wine for which each producer may sign contracts shall
be limited to a percentage to be specified of his wine
production declared during one of the last three wine years
including the production for the current year if already
declared. During a given year the producer may not change
the production year chosen as the reference for the calcula-
tion of that percentage. For the wine year 2003/04 that
percentage shall be 25 %.’

3. Paragraph 7 is replaced by the following:

Notwithstanding paragraph 5, the Member States may
‘7.
approve contracts or declarations before 25 January for a
quantity not exceeding 40 % of the quantity given in the
contracts or declarations.’

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 October 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 September 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45.
(4) OJ L 201, 8.8.2003, p. 12.