CELEX: 31978R1863
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1863/78 of 25 July 1978 determining, for the 1978/79 wine-growing year, the prices to be paid under the compulsory distillation of the by-products of wine-making and the maximum amount of the contribution from the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund

No L 215/16                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                4. 8 . 78
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1863/78
                                                      of 25 July 1978
              determining, for the 1978/79 wine-growing year, the prices to be paid under the
              compulsory distillation of the by-products of wine-making and the maximum amount
              of the contribution from the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance
                                                   and Guarantee Fund
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         applied on a standard basis ; whereas, on the other
                                                                 hand, when the prices referred to in the third
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     subparagraph of that paragraph are fixed, they
                                                                  should be based on the variations in cost which result
European Economic Community,
                                                                 from the differing origins of the alcohol supplied;
                                                                 whereas it should be specified that all these prices
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      should apply to rectified alcohol;
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional
provisions for the common organization of the                    Whereas the maximum amount of the contribution
market in wine ( x), as last amended by Regulation
 (EEC) No 1861 /78 (2), and in particular Article 24 (6)         from the Guarantee Section of the European
thereof,                                                         Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund should be
                                                                 fixed in the light of the situation on the market in
                                                                  alcohol,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(EEC) No 816/70 and Articles 2, 3 and 4 of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1930/76 of 20 July 1976 on the
distillation of the by-products of wine-making (3), as                                    Article 1
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1862/78 (4),
the Council fixes for each wine-growing year the                 1.    The prices for the 1978/79 wine-growing year
buying-in price for wine deliveries and the price for            shall be as follows :
the alcohol from wine deliveries under the compulsory
distillation of the by-products of wine-making and               — 0.58 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree
determines the maximum amount of the costs of the                    of alcohol for the buying-in price for wine
intervention agencies to be financed by the Guarantee                deliveries,
Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and
Guarantee Fund;                                                  — 0.93 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree
                                                                     of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the
                                                                     wine     deliveries  referred   to  in   the    first
Whereas the buying-in price for wine deliveries                      subparagraph of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
should be fixed taking into account the quantities                   No 1930/76,
available and the prices of table wines on the various
Community markets ; whereas the application of this              — 0.96 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree
criterion results in the buying-in price being fixed at a            of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the
                                                                     deliveries of marc referred to in the third
level corresponding to the lower limit laid down in
Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1930/76;                            subparagraph of the aforesaid Article 3 (2),
                                                                 — 0.90 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree
Whereas when the price of alcohol from wine                          of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the
deliveries is    fixed   as   referred    to  in the first           deliveries of wine referred to in the third
subparagraph of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC)                    subparagraph of the aforesaid Article 3 (2),
No 1930/76, the criteria referred to therein should be           — 0.90 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree
                                                                     of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the
                                                                     deliveries   of lees   referred to  in the third
(*) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .                                   subparagraph of the aforesaid Article 3 (2).
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
(s) OJ No L 211, 5. 8. 1976, p. 1 .                              The price of the alcohol from wine deliveries shall
(4) See page 14 of this Official Journal.                        apply to rectified alcohol.
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2.      The maximum amount of the contribution from                                 Article 2
the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
Guidance     and   Guarantee   Fund    for   the  above
wine-growing year shall be 0.30 unit of account per           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
hectolitre/degree of alcohol.                                 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 25 July 1978 .
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                      J. ERTL