CELEX: 31978R2932
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2932/78 of 13 December 1978 enabling short-term private storage contracts to be concluded for table wines closely related economically to the A I type of table wine

14 . 12 . 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 350 / 17
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2932/ 78
                                                     of 13 December 1978
               enabling short-term private storage contracts to be concluded for table wines
                            closely related economically to the A I type of table wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     having the effect desired ; whereas, therefore , storage
COMMUNITIES,                                                       contracts should be allowed to be concluded for such
                                                                   table wines ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                      ment Committee for Wine ,
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­
sions for the common organization of the market in
wine ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1861 /78 (2), and in particular Article 5 (7) thereof,
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (2)                                           Article 1
thereof provides that, if the state of the market so
requires, a decision may be taken to allow short-term               1 . The power to conclude short-term private
storage contracts to be concluded in respect of table              storage contracts for the A I type of table wine
wines other than those of the type for which this possi­           granted by Regulation ( EEC) No 2790/78 is hereby
bility exists, where such table wines are closely related          extended to white table wines that are closely related
economically to that type of table wine ;                          economically to the A I type of table wine .
Whereas       Commission          Regulation      (EEC)   No       2.     White  table  wines   with  an   actual alcoholic
2790/78 (3 ) enabled short-term private storage                    strength of not more than 14° , and which do not fall
contracts to be concluded for the A I type of table                within type A II and type A III , shall be considered to
wine ;                                                             be closely related economically to the A I type of
                                                                   table wine .
Whereas table wine prices on the Community market
are at present falling ; whereas this trend has been               3 . The power referred to in paragraph 1 shall
marked by the fact that intervention measures have                 continue for as long as the same power exists under
had to be brought into effect for the A I type of table            Regulation ( EEC) No 2790 /78 for the A I type of table
wine ; whereas, however, large quantities of white table           wine .
wines that are closely related economically to the A I
type of table wine are on the market and are subject                                       Article 2
to the general decline in prices ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Whereas these white table wines that are closely                    publication in the Official Journal of the European
related economically to the A I type of table wine are              Communities.
not covered by the said intervention measures, and
consequently may prevent the measures taken from                    It shall apply with effect from 30 November 1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 13 December 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(•) OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p . 1 .
(2) OJ No L 215, 4. 8 . 1978 , p . 1 .
(3) OJ No L 333, 30 . 11 . 1978 , p . 29 .