CELEX: 31973R3272
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-05
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3272/73 of the Commission of 4 December 1973 fixing the average producer prices for wine

5 . 12. 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 334/9
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3272/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 4 December 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 ( J ) 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 5 December
tions ;                                                             1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 4 December 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
Béziers                                                     1·469             Bordeaux                           1·518
Montpellier                                                 1·548             Nantes                              No
Narbonne                                                    1·530                                             quotation
                                                                              Bari                               1·585
Nîmes                                                       1·529
                                                            1·719             Cagliari                           1·569
Perpignan
                                                                              Chieti                              No
Asti                                                          No
                                                        quotation                                             quotation
Firenze                                                    2·046              Ravenna ( Lugo , Faenza )           No
                                                                                                              quotation
Lecce                                                         No
                                                        quotation             Trapani ( Alcamo )                  No
                                                                                                              quotation
Pescara                                                    2·154
                                                                              Treviso                             No
Reggio Emilia                                                No                                               quotation
                                                        quotation
Treviso                                                       No
                                                        quotation
Verona ( for local wines)                                  1·962
                                                                                                                 u.a . /hi
                                                                              A II
                                                                              Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt)           19·99
                                                                              Rheinhessen ( Hügelland )           No
                                                                                                             quotation (*)
R II
                                                                              The wine-growing region of the      No
Bari                                                       2·077
                                                                              Luxembourg Moselle             quotation (')
Barletta                                                   2·192
Cagliari                                                     No
                                                        quotation
Lecce                                                        No
                                                        quotation
Taranto                                                      No
                                                        quotation
                                                           u.a . /hi          A III
R III
                                                                              Mosel                             32·79
Rheinpfalz                                                 19·13              Rheingau                          34·84
Rheinhessen (Hügelland)                                      No               The wine-growing region of the      No
                                                       quotation ( x)         Luxembourg Moselle             quotation (')
(') Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70.