CELEX: 51980PC0856
Language: en
Date: 1980-12-09
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) laying down general rules for the system of accession compensatory amounts in the wine sector (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                  COM(80)856 final
                                                  Brussels , 9 December 1980
                                 Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
         laying down general rules for the system of accession compensatory
         amounts in the wine sector
                    ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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C0M(80 ) 856 final
 ---pagebreak---                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 Accession compensatory amounts
Article 6l ( l ) of the Act of Accession requires the difference "between Greek
prices and Community prices to be compensated "by compensatory amounts in trade
"between tie Community of Nine and Greece and "between Greece and non-member
 countries .                                                               ~
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 In the wine sector, this provision applies to the guid® price for table winajj©
 of types R I and R II , and to certain red "basic products . The compensatory
amount and detailed rules for fixing the amount in respect of liqueur wines are
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directly laid down "by Article 107 of the Act of Access|on .                        ■
 ---pagebreak---                  Proposal for a        '
                       Council Regulation (EEC )
      laying down general rules for the system of accession compensatory amounts
      in the wine sector
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to the the Act of Accession of Greece , and in. particular Article 72
 ( l ) thereof ,                  '                               i
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                                     .
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Whereas Articles 58 and 59 of nthe said A,ct lay down that prices may "be fixed
in Greece at a different level from the common prices ;        whereas , pursuant to
Article 61 of the Act , such differences in price levels are to "be compensated
"by a system of accession compensatory amounts ;
  Whereas the provisions of the said Artictes 58 , 59 and 61 aDply in the wine
  sector to the guide prices for table wines ; whereas the only types of table
  wine for which a price difference has been recorded are types R I and R II ;
  Whereas Article 107 of the said Act provides for the fixing of the compensatory
  amounts in respect -of other products for which a reference price is laiddown and
  the criteria-for determinitigi^eir amount ; whereas the said Article itself fixes the
  level of the compensatory amount for liqueur wines ;
 Whereas the compensatory amounts are intended to avoid disturbance in trade
 caused "by different price levels ;     whereas/ accordingly , compensatory amounts
 are only required in cases where such disturbance is likely;
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION ? !
        ■ ' ~ '              ' Article 1
                         Α.
For the purposes of this Regulation :
                                Ιϊί
- 'fcommunity of Nine"    means ' the Community as constituted "before the accession
of Greece |
–"accession compensatory amount"        means   the compensatory amounts applicable
in trade between the Community of Nine and Greece and "between Greece and non-
member countries *
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                               Article 2
For table wines of types R I and R II , the accession compensatory amounts shall ,
for each marketing year , be equal to the difference between the guide price and
the , corresponding price fixed for Greece .-                         1^
                               Article 3              '
1 . The accession compensatory amount for new red wine still in fermentation shall
be equal to that fixed for table wines of -types R I and R II .-
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2 . For the products listed in the Annex , the accession compensatory amount appli­
 cable shall be equal to the prevailing market price of each of the said products
 in the Community multiplied by. the difference/ expressed as a percentage, between
 the guide price of Rl-type table wines and the corresponding price fixed for Greece .
 3 * For liqueur wines , the accession compensatory amount shall be equal to the
amount of the countervailing / charge applicable vi$-£-vis          non-member countries
as .at 1 January 1981 .                             >
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                           Article 4
In intra Community trade , the accession compensatory amounts shall "be levied
or granted lay that one of the two Member States in question whose price level
used in determining the accession compensatory amounts is the higher .
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                           Article 5
The accession compensatory amount applicable shall be that ruling on the day
of import or export .
                           Article 6
                                i
                                  ι  :
Where , for a given product , an accession compensatory amount is fixed which
must be deducted from the refund on exports to non-member ^ountries and where the fe-
fund is Lower than the said accession compensatory amount qr is riot fixed- provision
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may be made for levying, on export of the product in questiqh from Greece to a
non-member country , an amount hot exceeding the difference rbetween the accession
compensatory amount and the refund or the accession compensatory amount itself,
depending on the circumstances .
Moreover , if for exports to one or more non-member countries^ the refund is lower
than the accession compensatory amount or is not fixed , provision may be made at the
time of export from Greece for the necessary measures that the amount referred to
in the above subparagraph is levied .
                              Article 7
The following shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 67 of Regulation (EEC ) No 337/79 !
a) detailed rules for granting and levying accession compensatory amounts in
such a way as to avoid any deflection of trade and distortion of competition .
b ) detailed rules for the application of this Regulation, and in particular :
– fixing of accession compensatory amounts ,
– cases where Article 6 is to apply.
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The measures to avoid, deflection of trade and distortion of competition may
apply after abolition of acoession compensatory amounts, for the period considered
necessary .       . ..                      ■ „
                                Article 8
This  Regulation shall enter . into force on 1 January 1981 .
This Regulation shall Toe "binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussels .                                      Por the Council
                                                            The President
 ---pagebreak---                               AÎTNEX
List of products referred to in Article 3(2 ):
1.  red wine fortified for distillation , within the meaning of additional
note 4 (*b) to Chapter 22 of the ''Common Customs Tariff .
2.  fresh red grape must with fermentation arrested "by addition    of alcohol-
within the meaning of additional note 4 ( a) to Chapter 22 of the Common
Customs Tariff .
3 . red grape juice , ( including grape must ), whether or not concentrated ,
with an added sugar content 'not exceeding 30$ "by weight , within subheadings
20.07 A I and B I of the Common Customs Tariff .
4. red grape juice , (including grape must ); whether or not concentrated ,with an
added sugar content exceeding 30$ "by weight within subheadingB 20.07 A I and B 1
of the Common Customs Tariff .