CELEX: 31977R1573
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1573/77 of 13 July 1977 on the granting of restorage aid for table wine for which a storage contract was concluded during the 1976/77 wine-growing year

14 . 7 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 174/27
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1573/77
                                                     of 13 July 1977
               on the granting of restorage aid for table wine for which a storage contract was
                                  concluded during the 1976/77 wine-growing year
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, since there is little time for administrative
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   implementation and since the quantities involved are
                                                                often small and the transport costs small by compar­
                                                                ison with the total costs, a standard amount of aid
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          should be fixed ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                Whereas the measures privided for in this Regulation
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­          ment Committee for Wine,
sions for the common organization of the market in
wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 528/77 (2), and in particular Articles 6a and 35 thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 13 August 1976 on storage contracts for table wine,
grape must and concentrated grape must (3) lays down
the procedure for concluding contracts ;
                                                                                       Article 1
Whereas the quantities of table wine in stock are large
for the time of the year ; whereas this is due to the           On application and subject to the conditions laid
fact that outlets during the current wine-growing year          down in Article 2, aid may be granted for the
are not absorbing the quantities available at the begin­        restorage of table wine that is covered by a storage
ning of the said year ;                                         contract under Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 in
                                                                another location or another warehouse belonging to a
Whereas the wine that is under storage contracts is            third party.
stored in containers which may be required to store
the next harvest ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas, in the circumstances, the restorage aid
referred to in Article 6a of Regulation (EEC) No
816/70 should now be granted, particularly since the           Aid may be granted only where :
recent bad weather affecting certain production zones
already shows where part of these quantities could be          — the distance is not more than 1 50 kilometres ;
restored ;                                                          neverthless, where storage capacity is not available
                                                                    within this distance, the intervention agency may
                                                                    authorize transport to the nearest appropriate
Whereas the aid should be restricted to restorage                   place of storage,
carried out within a maximum distance ;
                                                               — the storage contracts in question are either
                                                                    concluded before 20 July 1977 or their validity is
Whereas, in order to limit this measure to cases where              extended by the intervention agencies under
it appears economically justified, only those storage               Article 16(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76
contracts which are concluded or the validity of which              before 20 August 1977 and, in the case of long­
has been extended by the intervention agencies                      term storage contracts, expire after 20 September
during a given period should be considered ; wheras,                1977,
in order to ensure that the measure is properly imple­
mented, provisions should also be adopted concerning           — the restorage takes place between 1 August and 10
the nature of the transport and the date of submission              October 1977, and the transport is carried out in
of the application ;                                                one or more vehicles,
(>) OJ No L 99, 5 . 5. 1970, p. 1 .                            — applications for aid are submitted before 20
(2) OJ No L 69, 16. 3 . 1977, p. 1 .                                September 1977 to the intervention agency in the
(3) OJ No L 221 , 14. 8 . 1976, p. 20.                              Member State concerned .
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                       Article 3                             2. Member States shall notify the Commission by
The aid for all table wines shall be 110 units of
                                                             30 November 1977 at the latest of the quantities of
                                                             wine which have entered into restorage.
account per hectolitre.
                       Article 4
                                                                                    Article 5
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate
measures to ensure the necessary controls ; they shall,      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
in particular, check that the restorage of the wine has      following its publication in the Official Journal of
actually taken place.                                        the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 13 July 1977.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President