CELEX: 31972R0765
Language: en
Date: 1972-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 765/72 of the Commission of 14 April 1972 on a second amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 on recording quotations and fixing average prices for table wines

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                             REGULATION (EEC) No 765/72 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 14 April 1972
              on a second amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 on recording quotations and
                                         fixing average prices for table wines
THE     COMMISSION      OF       THE  EUROPEAN       COM­        transactions which do not relate to a specific
MUNITIES,                                                        minimum quantity should be excluded; whereas this
                                                                 minimum quantity should be fixed solely by reference
                                                                 to average transactions in respect of the different
Having, regard to the Treaty            establishing the         types of wines ;
European Economic Community;
                                                                 Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     that Member States shall, without delay, forward to
816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional                  the Commission by telex the information received
 provisions for the common organization of the                   from each commission set up for recording
market in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              quotations; whereas, to avoid difficulties during the
No 2722/712, and in particular Articles 4 (3 ) and 5             publishing of prices by the Commission, a time limit
 (7) thereof;                                                    should    be   set  for  information    to    reach  the
                                                                 Commission;
Whereas Articles 2 ( 1 ) (b) and 3 ( 1 ) (c) of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1020/703 of 29                    Whereas the Italian version of Article 8 (2) (c) of that
May 1970 on recording quotations and fixing average              Regulation differs from the texts in the other
prices for table wines, as amended by Regulation                 languages of the Community; whereas the Italian
(EEC) No 1184/704, determined the representative                 version should therefore be brought into line with the
markets for wines of the A I type in the French and              other versions;
Italian Republics ; whereas recent experience has
shown that hardly any transactions were effected at
Montpellier, Lecce and Rome in respect of that type              Whereas Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)         No
of wine; whereas those representative markets should             1020/70 provides that the Commission must fix        the
therefore be deleted from the list and Bari and Chieti           average price taking account in particular of        the
substituted   for   Lecce       and  Rome     respectively ;     extent to which the quotations notified              are
whereas, in view of the importance of Florence as a              representative, the comments of the Member States,
marketing centre for wines of the R 1 type, this                 the alcoholic strength and the quality of table wines
 centre should be included in the list of representative         which have been the subject of the transactions ;
markets for wines of the R I type for the Italian                whereas, so that the average prices fixed may give a
Republic which appears in Article 3 ( 1 ) (a) of that            true picture of the situation, provision should be
Regulation ;                                                     made for only quotations recorded at one marketing
                                                                 centre in respect of a specific quantity of. the type of
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70                 wine in question to be taken into consideration ;
                                                                 whereas this quantity should be fixed by taking
provides that the commissions collect at least once a
week information relating to the transactions which              account of the average quantities in respect of which
                                                                 all transactions for the different types of wine have
took place between producers and purchasers and
                                                                 been carried out;
forward it to the competent agency; whereas, in
order to make quotations more representative,
                                                                 Whereas paragraph 2 of that Article provides that
                                                                 when the Commission has no information regarding
1 OJ No L 99, 5.5.1970, p . 1 .                                  any one marketing centre, it shall maintain the
2 OJ No L 282, 23.12.1971, p. 1 .                                average - price for the preceding week; whereas, in
3 OJ No L 118, 1.6.1970, p. 16.                                  order to avoid the last published price being
4 OJ No L 138, 25.6.1970, p. 15.                                 constantly maintained in cases where quotations are
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not communicated over a long period, a time limit on                                     Article 3
the application of this rule should be provided for in
order to ensure that prices remain representative;               Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 shall
                                                                 be amended to read as follows .
Whereas, furthermore, experience has shown that
quotations commissions are sometimes unable to                       ' 1 . Member States shall, not later than Monday
record prices over fairly long periods ; whereas a                   each week, forward to the Commission by telex
                                                                     the information received from each commission
provision should therefore be laid down whereby
only those rfiarketing centres for which quotations                  during the previous        week together, where
have been recorded during a . certain period should be               appropriate, with their comments, in particular in
taken into consideration for the suspension of the                   respect of the trend of quotations.
conclusion of storage contracts ;                                    Where there is no commission for a marketing
                                                                      centre, the information provided for in paragraph
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                 2 shall be collected by the Member State
are in accordance with the Opinion of the                             concerned.'
Management Committee for Wine ;
                                                                                         Article 4
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                          Article 1                              In the Italian version of Article 8 (2) (e) of Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 1020/70, the words 'per il periodo in
                                                                 questione le transazioni considerate' shall be
1.     The centre 'Montpellier' shall be deleted from
the list in Article 2 ( 1 ) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No           substituted for the words 'le transazioni per il
1020/70 .
                                                                 periodo considerato.'
2.     The centre 'Firenze' shall be inserted after 'Asti'
                                                                                         Article 5
in Article 3 (1) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70.
3.     Article 3 ( 1 ) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No                Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 shall be
1020/70 shall be amended to read as follows :                    amended as follows :
     '(c) for table wines of the A I type                             '1.    The Commission shall fix the average price
                                                                     referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) on . the basis of the
          Bari, Cagliari, Chieti, Ravenna (Lugo, Faen­                average of the quotations notified, taking account
          za), Trapani (Alcamo), Treviso.'                            in particular of the extent to which they are
                                                                      representative, the comments of the Member
                                                                      States, the alcoholic strength and the quality of
                          Article 2                                   table wines which have been the subject of
                                                                     transactions. Quotations shall be disregarded if
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 shall be                     they relate to transactions of total quantities of
amended to read as follows :                                          less than :
    '1.    The commissions shall collect at least once                — 2 000 hi for table wines of the R I and A I
    a week information relating to the transactions                       types ;
    which took place between producers and
    purchasers during the days following their                        — 1 000 hi for table wines of the R II type;
    previous recording. They shall only consider                      — 500 hi for table wines of the A II, A III and
    information relating to quantities of:
                                                                          R III types.
    — at least 200 hi for table wines of the R I and
         A I types ;                                                  2.    Where the Commission has no information
    — at least 100 hL for table wines of the R II                     regarding any one marketing centre, it shall
         type ;                                                      maintain the average price of the previous fixing.
                                                                      However, if no quotations for that marketing
    — at least 30 hi for table wines of the A II, A III               centre are communicated for three consecutive
         and R III types.                                             weeks, that marketing centre shall not, as long as
                                                                      this situation continues, be taken into
    2.     The   commissions      shall forward    to   the           consideration when average prices are being fixed.
    competent agency the information referred to in                   This shall not prevent the conclusion of storage
    paragraph 1 .'                                                    contracts from being suspended.
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3.   "Where no quotation is recorded for a                                      Article 6
marketing centre for three consecutive weeks, this
shall not prevent the conclusion of storage              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
contracts from being suspended.'                         day following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                         of the European Communities.
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States .
         Done at Brussels, 14 April 1972.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                            S. L. MANSHOLT