CELEX: 31978R2485
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-26
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2485/78 of 25 October 1978 terminating the conclusion of short-term private storage contracts in respect of table wine of type A I and table wines in close economic relationship to that type of wine

No L 299 / 16                        Official Journal of the European Communities                            26 . 10 . 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2485 /78
                                                   of 25 October 1978
               terminating the conclusion of short-term private storage contracts in respect of
               table wine of type A I and table wines in close economic relationship to that
                                                      type of wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 of table wine to which they are closely related econom­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    ically ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 844/78 of
Economic Community,                                             26 April 1978 (3) on private storage aid for table wine
                                                               of type A I provides for the grant of private storage aid
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   from 27 April 1978 for table wine of type A I ;
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­
sions for the common organization of the market in             Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 898 /78 of
wine (! ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No               28 April 1978 (4) enabled short-term private storage
1861 /78 (2), and in particular Article 5 (7) thereof,         contracts to be concluded from 29 April 1978 in
                                                                respect of table wines closely related economically to
Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation intro­           the A I type of table wine ;
ducing a system of aid for the private storage of table
wine lays down that the granting of such aid is to be          Whereas it has been established that the representa­
subject to the conclusion of short-term or long-term            tive price for table wine of type A I during the past
storage contracts ; whereas the first subparagraph of           two weeks has been higher than the activating price ;
paragraph 2 of the said Article lays down that short­          Whereas the conditions set out in Article 5 (2) of
term storage contracts may be entered into when the             Regulation ( EEC) No 816/70 are therefore fulfilled,
representative price of a type of table wine remains
below the activating price for two consecutive weeks
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and that such contracts may no longer be entered into
when the representative price of that type of wine is
above the activating price for two consecutive weeks ;                                  Article 1
whereas, moreover, the second subparagraph of the               No short-term private storage contracts may be
said paragraph 2 lays down that a decision may be               entered into in respect of table wine of type A I or
taken to allow short-term contracts to be concluded
                                                                table wines closely related economically to that type
also in respect of table wines other than those of the          of wine .
type for which this possibility has been made avail­
able, where such wines are closely related economi­                                     Article 2
cally to that type of table wine ; whereas short-term
contracts may no longer be entered into in respect of          This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 October
these wines when they are not permissible in respect             1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 October 1978 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                              Vice-President
(») OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .                              ( ) OJ No L 115, 27. 4. 1978, p. 38 .
(2) OJ No L 215, 4. 8 . 1978, p. 1 .                            (4) OJ No L 117, 29. 4. 1978, p. 62.