CELEX: 31975R1528
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-16
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1528/75 of the Commission of 16 June 1975 concerning the temporary suspension of the distillation of table wines provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1036/75

17 . 6 . 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 155/7
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1528 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 16 June 1975
                concerning the temporary suspension of the distillation of table wines provided
                                             for in Regulation (EEC) No 1036/75
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                     Article 1
 Economic Community ;
                                                                   Where, in any distillery,         distillation operations
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      provided for in Regulation      (EEC) No 1036/75 are
 816/70       of 28 April 1970 laying down additional              interrupted by order of the      public authorities, then
 provisions fo the common organization of the market               pursuant to Article 4 (3)       of that Regulation the
 in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   Member State concerned            may authorize such
 678/75 (2), and in particular Article 7 (3) thereof ;             distillery, on the terms set out below, to resume such
                                                                   operations after the interruption
Whereas Article 4 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1 036/75 (3) of 21 April 1975 laying down in general              (a) the distillation contracts must be concluded not
 rules governing the distillation of table wines during                later than 1 July 1975 ;
 the period 7 June to 31 July 1975 provides that if a              (b) the distillery must take delivery of the wine before
 distillery is obliged to suspend all distillation opera­              the date specified in (a) ;
 tions by order of the public authorities, it may be               (c) the total duration of the operations concerned may
 decided that the distillation operations may be                       not exceed 55 days ;
 resumed in that distillery for a number of days such
 that the total duration of the operations concerned               d) distillation must in any event be completed not
                                                                       later than 20 October 1975 .
does not exceed the maximum authorized duration ;
whereas a certain number of distilleries may in effect             Member States shall notify the Commission of the
be obliged to suspend their activities for a certain               cases in which they have acted under the foregoing
 period ; whereas in order to utilize to the maximum               provisions.
the possibilities of distillation with a view to stabi­
 lizing the market, it appears advisable to have recourse
 to the abovementioned provision ,                                                         Article 2
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
 ment Committee for Wine,                                          the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 June 1975.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 43 .
(3 ) OJ No L 103 , 23 . 4 . 1975, p. 3 .