CELEX: 31973R3576
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3576/73 of the Council of 28 December 1973 on the extension and modification of the arrangements made by Regulation (EEC) No 1253/73 on imports of the wine product exported under the label of 'Cyprus Sherry', originating in and coming from Cyprus, and the introduction of subsidies for similar wine products produced in the Community as originally constituted and exported to Ireland and the United Kingdom

28 . 12 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 359/33
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 3576/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                        of 28 December 1973
                 on the extension and modification of the arrangements made by Regulation (EEC)
                 No 1253 /73 on imports of the wine product exported under the label of 'Cyprus Sherry',
                 originating in and coming from Cyprus, and the introduction of subsidies for similar
                 wine products produced in the Community as originally constituted and exported to
                                                  Ireland and the United Kingdom
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                           Whereas the legislation enacted should therefore be
                                                                     examined with the authorities of Cyprus with a view
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                        to making any necessary changes thereto ; whereas
 European Economic Community, and in particular                      the Cypriot authorities have declared their
 Article 43 thereof;                                                 willingness to collaborate with the Commission in
                                                                     order to seek the best ways of applying the
 Having       regard    to    the     proposal       from    the     exchange of letters referred to above ;
 Commission ;
                                                                     Whereas in the meantime any interruption in the
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                        arrangements applicable to imports of the relevant
 Parliament ;                                                        products into Ireland and the United Kingdom
                                                                     should be avoided,
 Whereas Regulation             (EEC)        No      1253 /73 (*)
 introduced arrangements for imports of the wine
 product exported under the label of ' Cyprus Sherry',
 originating in and coming from Cyprus, and made
 provisions for subsidies for similar wine products                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 produced in the Community as originally constituted
 and exported to Ireland and the United Kingdom ;                                              Article 1
Whereas these arrangements are applicable until 31                   For the period from 1 January to 31 December
 December 1973 ; but whereas under Article 6 of                      1974, the countervailing charge provided for in the
Regulation (EEC) No 1253 /73 , if, before 1 Sep­                     first subparagraph of Article 9 (3 ) of Council
 tember 1973 , the Republic of Cyprus enacts                         Regulation ( EEC) No 816/70 (3) of 28 April 1970
legislation on wine production which is in                           laying down additional provisions for the common
conformity with Community rules applicable to                       organization of the market in wine as last amended
products similar to those specified in Article 1 , the               by Regulation (EEC) No 2591 /73 (4) shall not be
 Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission                  levied on imports into Ireland and the United
in accordance with the voting procedure laid down                   Kingdom of the wine product exported under the
 in Artidle 43 ( 2) of the Treaty, may take all                      label of ' Cyprus Sherry' originating in and coming
 necessary steps to ensure that the arrangements are                 from Cyprus up to a maximum amount of 200 000
extended      in accordance with the terms               of the     hectolitres .
exchange of letters annexed to the Protocol (2)
 laying down certain provisions relating to the
 Agreement establishing an association between the                                             Article 2
European Economic Community and the Republic
of Cyprus following the Accession of new Member                      1.    The amount of 200 000 hectolitres fixed in
States to the European Economic Community ;                         Article 1 shall be divided into two shares, the one of
                                                                    2 000    hectolitres   for Ireland    and the other of
Whereas on 31 August 1973 the Republic of Cyprus                     198 000 hectolitres for the United Kingdom.
 adopted new rules governing wine production and on
16 October 1973 sent texts for perusal by the                       2. The Member States named in paragraph 1 shall
Commission ;                                                        ensure that importers of the relevant product
                                                                    established in their territory have free access to the
Whereas, however, consideration of these texts is                   shares attributed to them .
not yet far enough advanced for a decision finally to
be taken on whether the legislation enacted by                      3.     The extent to which the Member States named
Cyprus is in conformity with Community rules ;                      in paragraph 1 have used up their shares shall be
(*) OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5 . 1973 , p. 115 .                          (3) OJ No L 99, 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5 . 1973 , p. 95 .                           (4) OJ No L 259, 26. 9. 1973 , p. 1 .
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determined on the basis of imports of the product in         2. The subsidies referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
question entered for home use.                               calculated on the basis of the difference, on the
                                                             markets    of  the   Member      States referred    to  in
4. The Member States named in paragraph 1 shall              paragraph 1 , between the prices of these Community
inform the Commission at regular intervals of                wine products and the price of the wine product
imports from Cyprus actually set off against their           exported under the label of 'Cyprus Sherry'.
shares .
                                                                                      Article 5
                       Article 3
Wine products imported into Ireland and the United           Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation,
Kingdom free of countervailing charge, pursuant to           in particular those concerning the amount of the
 Article 1 , may not be exported to other Member             subsidy and the Community wine products eligible
States .                                                     for aid, shall be adopted in accordance with the
                                                             procedure laid down in Article 7 of Regulation No
                                                             24 (*) on the progressive establishment of a common
                       Article 4                              organization of the market in wine.
1 . Subsidies shall be granted in respect of exports
effected from 1 February 1973 to 31 December 1974                                     Article 6
to Ireland and the United Kingdom of wine
products produced in the Community as originally             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
constituted which are similar to the wine product            day following its publication in the Official Journal
exported under the label of ' Cyprus Sherry'.                of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 .
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                           Ove GULDBERG
                                                             (!) OJ No 30, 20. 4. 1962, p. 989/62.