CELEX: 31978R2777
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/78 of 23 November 1978 fixing the activating prices for table wines for the period 16 December 1978 to 15 December 1979

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30 . 11 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No L 333/3
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2777/78
                                                  of 23 November 1978
               fixing the activating prices for table wines for the period 16 December 1978 to
                                                    15 December 1979
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the different trends on the markets in red
COMMUNITIES,                                                    and white wines justify the introduction of selectivity
                                                                in fixing activating prices and in particular an increase
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           in the activating prices for white wines of less than
Economic Community,                                             that adopted for red wines and that adopted by the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Council for the guide prices ;
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­          Whereas the guide prices for the period 16 December
sions for the common organization of the market in              1978 to 15 December 1979 were fixed by Regulation
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                (EEC) No 1299/78 (3) ; whereas Article 3 (3) of Regula­
1861 /78 (2), and in particular Article 3 (1 ) thereof,         tion (EEC) No 816/70 provides that the activating
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              price shall be fixed at the same stage and shall be
                                                                valid during the same period as the guide price ;
Whereas an activating price must be fixed annually              whereas Regulation (EEC) No 945/70 (4) determined
for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed,         the types of table wine to which these prices apply,
taking into consideration the factors set out in Article
3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the quality of the 1978/79 harvest can gener­
ally be regarded as slightly below average ;                                                  Article 1
Whereas the current prices for R I and R II table               The activating prices for table wines for the period 16
wines are at least equal to the activating prices ;             December 1978 to 15 December 1979 are hereby
whereas, however, the prices for A I table wines have           fixed as follows :
been consistently lower than the activating prices for
the past four wine years, with the exception of a short
period at the end of 1977 ; whereas in the last wine                   Type of wine                   Activating price
year the prices for A II and A III table wines settled at
a level well below their respective activating prices ;         R   I                          1.93 u.a./degree per hectolitre
                                                                R   II                         1.93 u.a./degree per hectolitre
Whereas, although the harvest was more plentiful                R   III                       30.00 u.a./hectolitre
than in the previous wine year, the quantity available          A    I                         1.79 u.a./degree per hectolitre
is, because of relatively low stocks, slightly lower than       A II                          39.66 u.a./hectolitre
that recorded for the 1977/78 wine year ;                       A III                         45.29 u.a./hectolitre
Whereas the level of the activating prices must take
account of the factors mentioned above ; whereas the                                          Article 1
activating prices fixed for the previous wine year
should therefore be increased, without, however, en­            This Regulation shall enter into force on                      16
couraging production ;                                           December 1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 23 November 1978 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                       J. ERTL
0) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .                                (3) OJ No L 160, 17. 6. 1978, p. 11 .
(2) OJ No L 215, 4. 8. 1978, p. 1 .                              («) OJ No L 114, 27. 5. 1970, p. 1 .