CELEX: 31973R3140
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3140/73 of the Commission of 20 November 1973 fixing the average producer prices for wine

No L 320/ 8                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             21 . 11 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3140 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 20 November 1973
                                         fixing the average producer prices for wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas arrangements for the notification by the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       Member States of quotations and information related
                                                                   thereto are specified in Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               1020/70 ; whereas, where this information is not avail­
Economic Community ;                                               able for any marketing centre, the average price for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       the preceding week must be maintained ;
816/70 ( ! ) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional
provisions for the common organization of the market
                                                                   Whereas the average price for the type of wine in
                                                                   question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as
in wine as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   appropriate ; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public
2592/73 (2), and in particular Article 4(1 ) thereof ;
                                                                   holiday, the average price must be fixed on the
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70                    following working day ;
provides that an average producer price must be fixed
for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed ;           Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
whereas this average price must be fixed for each                  information at present available to the Commission
marketing centre for the type of wine in question on               that the average price should be fixed as shown in the
the basis of all the facts available ;                             Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are
determined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1020/70 (3) of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations
and fixing average prices for table wines, as last                                         Article 1
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 765/72 (4) ;
Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70                  The average prices referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regu­
provides that the average price must be fixed on the               lation (EEC) No 816/70 are hereby fixed as shown in
basis of the average of the quotations notified, parti­            the Annex to this Regulation.
cular account being taken of the extent to which these
quotations are representative, the comments of the                                         Article 2
Member States, and the alcoholic strength and quality
of table wines which have been the subject of transac­             This Regulation shall enter into force on 21
tions ;                                                             November 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 20 November 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           François-Xavier ORTOLI
(!) OJ  No   L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No   L 269, 26. 9 . 1973, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No   L 118, 1 . 6. 1970, p. 16.
(4) OJ  No   L 89, 15. 4. 1972, p. 31 .
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                                                                     ANNEX
                                     Average prices for table wines at the various marketing centres
                                                           u.a . per                                           u.a . per
                         Type                             degree/hi                               Type         degree/hi
 R I                                                                         A I
 Beziers                                                    1·568            Bordeaux                           1·514
 Montpellier                                                1·563            Nantes                              No
 Narbonne                                                    No
                                                                                                            quotation (*)
                                                         quotation           Bari                               1·631
 Nîmes                                                      1·588            Cagliari                            No
 Perpignan                                                  1·579                                           quotation (1)
                                                                             Chieti                              No
 Asti                                                        No
                                                        quotation                                             quotation
                                                                             Ravenna ( Lugo, Faenza)             No
Firenze                                                     2·123
                                                                                                              quotation
Lecce                                                        No
                                                         quotation           Trapani (Alcamo )                   No
                                                                                                              quotation
 Pescara                                                     No
                                                                             Treviso                            1·885
                                                         quotation
Reggio Emilia                                                No
                                                        quotation
Treviso                                                     1·885
                                                                                                                u.a . /hi
 Verona ( for local wines)                                  1·962
                                                                             A II
                                                                             Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt)           20·14
R II                                                                         Rheinhessen ( Hügelland)           21·86
Bari                                                         No              The wine-growing region of the      No
                                                        quotation
                                                                             Luxembourg Moselle             quotation ( x)
Barletta                                                     No
                                                        quotation
Cagliari                                                     No
                                                        quotation
Lecce                                                        No
                                                        quotation
Taranto                                                      No
                                                        quotation            A III
                                                           u.a . /hi         Mosel                               No
R III
                                                                                                            quotation (*)
                                                                             Rheingau                            No
Rheinpfalz                                                  19·54                                           quotation (*)
Rheinhessen (Hügelland)                                    20·49             The wine-growing region of the      No
                                                                             Luxembourg Moselle             quotation (*)
(') Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70.