CELEX: 31977R2028
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2028/77 of 12 September 1977 on the application of the additional measures applicable to holders of long-term storage contracts for certain table wines for the 1976/77 wine-growing year

No L 235/ 10                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            14. 9 . 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2028/77
                                                   of 12 September 1977
               on the application of the additional measures applicable to holders of long-term
                 storage contracts for certain table wines for the 1976/77 wine-growing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  tion of any storage contracts ; whereas, taking into
COMMUNITIES,                                                    account the market situation indicated by the harvest
                                                                forecasts and the levels of stocks at the end of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           wine-growing year, the said percentage should be
Economic Community,                                             50 % and the said duration four months ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­           are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
sions for the common organization of the market in              ment Committee for Wine,
wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1 679/77 (2), and in particular Article 6c (4) thereof,
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the measures to support the wine market
which were employed during the 1976/77 wine­
                                                                                         Article 1
growing year have not in all cases given the desired
results ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                Holders of long-term storage contracts for table wines
2027/77 of 12 September 1977 laying down the                    of types R I and A I and for wines which are in close
detailed rules of application for the additional                economic relationship with them may, in accordance
measures applicable to holders of long-term storage             with the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2027/77 :
contracts for table wine for the 1976/77 wine-growing
year (3) provided that the period of three consecutive          (a) carry out distillation in respect of a quantity of
weeks referred to in Article 6c ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)           wine not exceeding 50 % of the quantity under
No 816/70 shall fall between 1 August and 30                        contract ;
 November ; whereas since 1 August the weighted                 (b) in respect of the quantity which is not distilled
average price for table wines of types R I and A I has              under (a), conclude a storage contract for a period
remained lower than the activating price for five                   of four months .
consecutive weeks ; whereas the conditions laid down
in Article 6c ( 1 ) are thus satisfied ; whereas it is there­                            Article 2
fore necessary to adopt the measures referred to in the
said Article 6c ;                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2027/77 makes provi­                 the European Communities.
sion for fixing the percentage of the wine under
contract which may be distilled and fixing the dura­            It shall apply with effect from 16 September 1977.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 12 September 1977.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                              Vice-President
(>) OJ No L 99, 5 . 5. 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 187, 27. 7. 1977, p. 15.
(3) See page 6 of this Official Journal .