CELEX: 31970R1020
Language: en
Date: 1970-05-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 of the Commission of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations and fixing average prices for table wines

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    297
No L 118 / 16                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1.6.70
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1020/70 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 29 May 1970
                           on recording quotations and fixing average prices for table wines
THE     COMMISSION      OF     THE  EUROPEAN      COM­         advisable that the relevant information should be
MUNITIES,                                                      collected in Member States by commissions set up by
                                                               Member States to watch the development of prices
                                                               for each marketing centre serving an area of a certain
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   size and on which representation will be determined
European Economic Community ;                                  by the economic importance of the parties concerned ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas the average prices are producer prices;
816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional                whereas it is therefore advisable to limit the recording
provisions for the common organisation of the                  of prices to Member States which produce table
market in wine, and in particular Articles 4 (3 ), 35          wines and to the prices applied between producers
and 37 thereof;                                                and purchasers ; whereas, in order to assess such
                                                               prices, the information about them should be as
Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                 precise as possible;
816/70 laid down that for each type of wine for
which a guide price is fixed the Commission must fix           Whereas the information obtained by the
each week, on the basis of all facts available to it, an       above-mentioned commissions and forwarded by the
average producer price (hereinafter called 'average            Member States to the Commission should serve as a
price') for each marketing centre for the type of wine
                                                               basis for calculating the average prices; whereas,
in question;                                                   since such prices are intended to serve as a basis for
                                                               activating intervention measures and to permit a
Whereas it is however necessary to determine the               general conspectus of the development of the market
marketing centres in question ; whereas, as far as             in table wines in the Community, they must reflect
France and Italy are concerned, the representative             the actual situation of the market; whereas, to that
markets for certain types of wine may be used ;                end, the prices must be fixed on the basis of the
                                                               average of tlie quotations recorded, while taking
                                                               account of the exent to which transactions may be
Whereas paragraph 2 of the same Article 4 lays down            representative and of the assessment to be made of
that Member States should supply to the Commission             the trend of the market;
all relevant information for fixing average prices and,
in particular, where there are representative markets,         Whereas, when information is not available to the
the producer prices recorded on those markets for              Commission, price levels should be maintained as
each type of wine;                                             previously fixed;
Whereas it is necessary to specify the procedure               Whereas the setting up of a system of recording
according to which quotations are recorded and                 quotations necessitates, in certain Member States, a
average prices are fixed ;                                     preparatory period; whereas, in the absence of
                                                               information, prices cannot be fixed during that
Whereas, in order to achieve a survey which is as              period ;
uniform as possible throughout the Community, it is
                                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                               are   in   accordance with     the    Opinion    of the
1 OJ No L 99, 5.5.1970, p. 1 .                                 Management Committee for Wine;
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                               Article 4
                          Article 1                                The marketing centre of the Grand Duchy of
                                                                   Luxembourg shall be the wine-growing region of the
                                                                   Luxembourg Moselle for table wines of the A II and
The marketing centres of the Federal Republic of                   A III types .
 Germany shall be :
                                                                                            Article 5
 (a) for table wines of the R III type :
       Rheinpfalz, Rheinhessen (Hiigelland);                      A commission for the recording of quotations
                                                                   (hereinafter called 'commission') shall be set up by
 ( b ) for table wines of the A II type :                          the Member States, where it. does not exist already,
                                                                   for each of the marketing centres, mentioned in
       Rheinpfalz (Oberhaardt), Rheinhessen (Hügel­                Articles 1 to 4 and corresponding to an area under
       land);                                                      vindes larger than 2000 hectares.
 (c) for table wines of the A III type :
                                                                                            Article 6
       Mosel, Rheingau.
                                                                  When setting up a commission, Member States shall
                                                                  ensure that all the parties concerned are represented
                          Article 2
                                                                  proportionally to their importance in the marketing
                                                                   centre for which it is set up .
1.      The marketing centres of the French Republic
shall be :
                                                                                           Article 7
 ( a) for table wines of the R I type :
                                                                   1.     The commissions shall collect at least once a
       Béziers, Montpellier, Narbonne, Nîmes, Per­                week information relating to the transactions which
       pignan ;                                                   took place between producers and purchasers during
                                                                  the days following their previous meeting.
(b) for table wines of the A I type:
                                                                  2.      The commissions shall forward the information
       Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes.                             referred to in paragraph 1 to the competent agency at
                                                                  the end of each meeting. \
2.      The marketing centres referred to in paragraph
1 shall be the representative markets referred to in
Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 .                                               Article 8
                                                                  1 . Member States shall, without delay, forward to
                         Article 3                                the Commission by telex the information received
                                                                  from each commission, together, where appropriate,
1.      The marketing centres of the Italian Republic             with their comments, in particular in respect of the
shall be :                                                        trend of quotations.
(a) for table wines of the R I type :                             Where there is no commission for a marketing centre,
                                                                  the information, provided for in paragraph 2 shall be
       Asti, Lecce, Pescara, Reggio Emilia, Treviso,              collected by the Member State concerned .
       Verona (for local wines );
                                                                  2.      The information shall relate to :
(b) for table wines of the R II type :                            ( a) prices ;
       Bàri, Barletta, Cagliari, Lecce, Taranto ;                 ( b ) the colour or, where appropriate, the type of
                                                                        wine under consideration ;
(c) for table wines of the A I type :
                                                                  ( c) the alcoholic strength, in the case of table wines
       Cagliari, Lecce, Ravenna (Lugo, Faenza), Roma,                   quoted per degree/hi ;
       Trapani (Alcamo ), Treviso .
                                                                  ( d ) the vine variety, in the case of table wines of the
                                                                        R III, A II and A III types ;
2 . The marketing centres referred to in paragraph
1 shall be the representative markets referred to in              (e) the quantity covered by the transactions for the
Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 .                           period under consideration .
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                        Article 9                                the alcoholic strength and the quality of table wines
                                                                 which have been the subject of the transactions.
1.    Every Tuesday, and for the first time on 16 June
1970, the Commission shall fix the average price, per            2.     Where the Commission has no information
degree/hi or per hi, as appropriate, for the type of             regarding any one marketing centre, it shall maintain
wine in question.                                                the average price for the preceding week.
2. Where the Tuesday is a public holiday, the
average price referred to in paragraph 1 shall be fixed                                 Article 11
on the following working day.
                                                                 Member States shall notify the Commission without
                                                                 delay of the measures taken to implement this
                       Article 10                                Regulation.
1 . The Commission shall fix the average price
referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) on the basis of the average                              Article 12
of the quotations notified, taking account in
particular of the extent to which they are                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June
representative, the comments of the Member States,               1970 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 29 May 1970.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                          Jean REY