CELEX: 31976R2878
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2878/76 of 23 November 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 laying down special provisions relating to quality wines produced in specified regions

30 . 11 . 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 331 /3
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2878/76
                                                        of 23 November 1976
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 laying down special provisions relating
                                        to quality wines produced in specified regions
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                               When this yield is being fixed, particular account
COMMUNITIES,                                                              shall be taken of the yields obtained over the
                                                                          preceding 10 years. Only harvests of satisfactory
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     quality from representative soils of the specified
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                          region shall be considered.
thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                       The yield per hectare may be fixed at different
                                                                          levels for the same quality wine p.s.r. depending
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                      on :
ment ('),
                                                                          — the      sub-region, commune      or part of a
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                               commune, and
Social Committee (2),
                                                                          — the vine variety or varieties,
Whereas the experience gained in applying Council
Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 of 28 April 1970 laying                        from which the grapes used are derived.
down special provisions relating to quality wines
produced in specified regions (3), as last amended by                     A yield so fixed may be adjusted by the Member
                                                                          State concerned .
Regulation (EEC) No 1 161 /76 (4), shows that Article
 10 thereof should be made more specific in particular
as regards the measures which Member States may                           2. Use of the designation claimed shall be prohi­
take,                                                                     bited for the entire harvest if the yield referred to
                                                                          in paragraph 1 is exceeded, save where derogations
                                                                          are provided for on a general or individual basis by
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                             the Member States under conditions which they
                                                                          shall lay down, on the basis of wine-growing areas
                            Article 1                                     if appropriate ; these conditions shall relate in
                                                                          particular to the use to which the wines or
Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 shall be                         products in question are to be put.'
amended to read as follows :
       Article 10
                                                                                                Article 2
      1 . A yield per hectare expressed in quantities of
      grapes, of grape must or of wine shall be fixed for            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
      each quality wine p.s.r. by the Member State                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
      concerned .                                                     the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 23 November 1976 .
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                             A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
(■) OJ No C 238 , 11 . 10 . 1976, p. 48 .
(2) Opinion delivered 30 September 1976 ( not yet published
     in the Official Journal).
(3 ) OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p . 20 .
(4 ) OJ No L 135, 24. 5 . 1976, p. 27.