CELEX: 51976PC0603
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Date: 1976-11-19
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) fixing the activating prices for table wines for the period from 16 December 1976 to 15 December 1977 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                         COM(76)603 final.
                                         Brussels • 19 November 1976#
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                             Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION' (EEC )
         fixing the activating prices for table wines for the
         period from 16 December 1976 to 15 December 1977
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              ( submitted, to the Council by the Commission ) *
                     /:
 COM(76) 603 final.
 ---pagebreak---                               EXPLANATORY MEMORABDUM
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1 # Article 3 ( l ) of Regulation (EEC ) N° 816/70 laying down additional provisions
    for the common organization of the market in wine provides that a threshold
    price activating the intervention system for each type of wine for which a
    guide price is fixed ( thereafter called the "activating price") shall "be fixed
    annually before 16 December .
    It is laid down in particular that the activating price shall be fixed in the
    light of the following factors :
    ( a ) the state of the market and in particular the extent of price fluctuations ;
    ( b ) the need to ensure price stability on the markets without causing structural
          surpluses to build up in the Community ;
    ( c ) the quality of the harvest ;
    (d ) the information contained in the forward estimates provided for in Article
          3 of Regulation N° 24 on the progressive establishment of a common organi­
          zation of the market in wine .
2 . ( a) Observation of the Community markets shows that the weighted average prices
          showed an upward trend at the beginning of the 1975/ 76 wine year . Prices
          for table wines of types R I and R II are far above the corresponding
          activating prices , while the average prices for other types of table wine
          are still below these levels .
     (b ) The need to guarantee price stability on the markets without causing struc­
           tural surpluses to build up in the Community leads to a difficult choice
          between efforts to provide an equitable income for producers without this
           acting as an inducement to expand production .
           Because of the recent general price increase a slight increase in the
           activating prices was considered justified in order to guarantee an adequa e
           income for the producer , without causing any risk of structural surpluses .
           Too great an increase , particularly in view of the amounts available at
           present , could be a burden for the future .
     ( c) The quality of the harvest in general may be considered average , but in
           certain regions of the Community it is good .
      (d) The latest information in the forward estimates shows a drop in available
           wine stocks oompared with the previous wine year.
 ---pagebreak--- CONCLUSIONS
      An increase in "the activating price for each type of table wine appears
justified , especially as the guide prioes for all wines for the period between
16 December 1976 and 15 December 1977 have been increased by 6.5 $ ( Council
Regulation N° 833/76 of 6 April I976 - OJ F L 100 of 14 April 1976 , page 12 ).
      In this connection account , must however be taken of the fact that the guide
price represents the aim to be achieved while the activating price is more
closely linked to the short-term development of the market , especially the
quantities available .
      Under existing market conditions , increasing the activating price by the
same percentage as the guide price appears justified .
      In view of the above , the activating price should be set at a level corres­
ponding to the ratio between guide price and activating price last year , i.e.
93 io of the guide price .
 ---pagebreak---                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           fixing the activating prices for table wines for the
           period from 16 December 1976 to 15 December 1977
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard, to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) N° 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down
additional provisions for the common organization of the market in wine 1 , as
last amended by Regulation (EEC ) N° II67/76 2 , and in particular Article 3 ( 1 )
thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed an activating price
must be fixed each year in the light of the factors set out in Article 3 (2 ) of
Regulation (EEC ) N° 816/70 ;
Whereas the quality of the harvest in the 1976/1977 wine year may in general be
considered average ;
Whereas the weighted average prices have tended to rise somewhat since the begin­
ning of the 1975/76 wine year ; whereas , however , with the exception of R I and
R II table wines , the weighted average for all the other types are either lower
than or close to the activating price ;
Whereas , having regard to the lower stocks left over from the preceding wine year
and the quantitatively poorer harvest , the forward estimates show that the quantity
available is lower than last year ;
Whereas the above factors must be taken into account when fixing the activating
prices ; whereas the activating prices fixed for the preceding year must therefore
be increased , without this increase being allowed to stimulate output ;
 Whereas the guide prices for the period from 16 December 1976 to 3.5 December 1977
were fixed by Regulation (EEC) N° 833/76 3 ; whereas , pursuant to Article 3 ( 3)of
 Regulation (EEC) N° 816/70 , the activating price is to be fixed at the same sta*
 and is to be valid during the same period as the guide price ; whereas the types
 of table wine to which these prices apply were laid down by Regulation (EEC )
 K° 945/70 4 ,
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                      ,
    OJ N° L 99 ,   5 May 1970 , p. 1
 2 OJ N° L 135 , 24 May 1976 , p. 42
  3 OJ N° L 100 , 14 April 1976 , p. 12
 4 OJ N° L 114 , 27 May 1970 , P « 1
 ---pagebreak---                                 Article 1
      For the period from 16 December 197® to 15 December 1977 » "the activating
price is fixed at s
                                                   ι
Table Wine                                               Guide price
1 . Type R I                                 1.82 u.a . per degree/hectolitre
2 . Type R II                                1.82 u.a . per degree/hectolitre
3 . Type R III                               28.44 u.a . per hectolitre
4 . Type A I                                 1«71 u.a. per degree/hectolitre
5 . Type A II                                37*89 u.a . per hectolitre
6 . Type A III                               43.27 u.a . per hectolitre
                               Article 2
      This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 December 1976 .
      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
      Done at Brussels ,                                   For the Council
                                                            The President