CELEX: 31975R0644
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 644/75 of the Commission of 12 March 1975 fixing countervailing charges in the wine sector

No L 67 / 14                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                  14 . 3 . 75
                                   REGULATION ( EEC) No 644/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                                of 12 March 1975
                                           fixing countervailing charges in the wine sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             Whereas, in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation
 COMMUNITIES,                                                              (EEC) No 1019/70 , the prices used must be adjusted if
                                                                           they do not apply free-at-Corrvnunity-frontier or to a
                                                                           wine corresponding to that whose guide price was
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     taken into account in fixing the reference price ;
 Economic Community ;
                                                                           Whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation ( EEC)
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                             No 1019/70, when a countervailing charge is fixed for
8 1 6/70 (') of 28 April 1970 laying down additional                       imports of red or white wine, a countervailing charge
provisions for the common organization of the market                       must be fixed for imports of musts of the same
in wine, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                           colour ; whereas in that case the countervailing charge
31 66/74 (-), and in particular Article 9 (6) thereof ;                    to be levied on must is calculated by weighting the
                                                                           amount of the charge applicable to the corresponding
                                                                           wine with a coefficient which takes account of the
Whereas Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70                        ratio of 0-95 existing on the Community market
provides that a countervailing charge must be levied                       between the average price of must and that of wine ;
on imports of a wine and of wines of the same cate­
gory where the free-at-frontier offer price for that                       Whereas, the countervailing charge for a product must
wine, plus customs duties, is lower than the reference                     be fixed per degree/ hectolitre or per hectolitre
price for that wine ; whereas the countervailing charge                    according to whether the reference price for that
is equal to the difference between the reference price                     product is fixed per degree/hectolitre or per hecto­
and the free-at-frontier offer price plus customs                          litre ;
duties ;
                                                                           Whereas, in accordance with Article 4 (2) of Regula­
Whereas        Commission               Regulation       ( EEC)    No      tion ( EEC) No 1019/70, the countervailing charge
3157/74 (3 ) of 13 December 1974 fixed the reference                       must be altered when a noticeable variation in the free­
prices for wine for the period 16 December 1974 to                         at-frontier offer price is recorded ;
 1 5 December 1 975 ;
                                                                           Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
                                                                           information at present available to the Commission
Whereas, in respect of each wine for which a refer­                        that the countervailing charge should be fixed as
ence price is fixed, a free-at-frontier offer price for all                follows ;
imports is determined on the basis of all the available
information ; whereas the nature of that information is
specified in Article 1 ( 1 ), (2) and (3) of Commission                    Whereas the Management Committee for Wine has
Regulation ( EEC) No 1019/70 (4 ) of 29 May 1.970 on                       not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
detailed rules for establishing free-at-frontier offer                     its Chairman ,
prices and fixing the countervailing charge in the
wine sector, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No
612/75 (5 );
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Articles 1 and 3 of Regu­
lation ( EEC) No 1019 / 70, free-at-frontier offer prices
must be established on the basis of the most advan­                                                  Art kit- 1
tageous purchasing possibilities for the products in
question , and no account should be taken of data                         The countervailing charges applicable in the wine
concerning supplies which have no economic effect                          sector are fixed at the following levels :
on the market, in particular by reason of the small
quantities involved ;                                                      1 . Red wine : 0-22 u.a . per degree/ hi .
                                                                           2 . White wine other than that referred to in 3 : 0-20
(')  OJ No   L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p. 1 .
{2 ) OJ No   L 338 , 17 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 .                                    u.a . per degree/hi .
(>)  OJ No   L 334, 14 . 12 . 1974, p. 34.
{*)  OJ No   L 1 1 8 , 1 . 6 . 1 970 , p. 1 3 .                            3 . White wine offered for import under the name of
(s ) OJ No   L 64, 1 1 . 3 . 1975 , p. 2 .                                     ' Riesling' or 'Sylvaner' : 0 u.a . per hectolitre .
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4. Liqueur wine other than that referred to in 5 : 1.21            (a) White : 0.19 u.a . per degree/hi .
    u.a . per degree/ hi .                                         (b) Other : 0.21 u.a . per degree/hi .
5 . Liqueur wines intended for processing : 0 u.a . per
    degree/ hi .                                                                        Article 2
6. Wine fortified for distillation : 0 u.a . per degree/ hi .
7. Grape must with fermentation not arrested by the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
    addition of alcohol :                                       1975 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 12 March 1975 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission