CELEX: 31962R0024
Language: en
Date: 1962-04-04 00:00:00
Title: EEC Council: Regulation No 24 on the progressive establishment of a common organisation of the market in wine

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    123
 20.4.62                      OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                       989/62
                                                REGULATION No 24
                  on the progressive establishment of a common organisation of the market in wine
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                           Whereas the manner of implementing these measures
 COMMUNITY,-                                                    must be such that the information obtained is
                                                                comparable at Community level while taking account
                                                                of the situation peculiar to each Member State;
Having regard to the provisions of the Treaty
 establishing the European Economic Community, and             Whereas it accords with the policy of encouraging
 in particular Article 43 thereof;                              quality production that the required characteristics of
                                                               a quality wine produced in specified regions should
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;            be defined ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                   Whereas, in order to facilitate implementation of the
Parliament;                                                    proposed measures, a procedure should be provided
                                                               for establishing close co-operation between Member
                                                               States and the Commission within a Management
Whereas the. operation and development of the                  Committee ;
common market in agricultural products must be
accompanied by the establishment of a common
agricultural policy to include in particular a common
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
organisation of agricultural markets established
product by product;
                                                                                       Article 1
Whereas there are appreciable divergencies in the
wine-growing policies pursued by different Member
States at national level, and whereas, irrespective of         Member States shall, not later than 30 June 1963 ,
the policy followed, surpluses of a permanent nature           prepare a viticultural land register which shall
give rise to serious difficulties in the wine-growing          thereafter be kept up to date.
economy of certain producer countries ;
                                                               This register, based on the general vineyard census ,
Whereas wine production constitutes an important               shall include the following minimum information :
item in agricultural income, and whereas the
common organisation must aim at stabilising markets            ( a) the total area under vines ;
and prices by adjusting supplies to requirements, such
adjustment being directed in particular towards
quality production ;                                           ( b) the area under vines subdivided according to
                                                                    type of production;
Whereas the necessary steps to bring about this
adjustment require that the potential output be                (c) the method of management of plantations ;
known and that the quantity of must and wine
available be assessed each year ;                              (d) the classification of vine plantations according to
                                                                    surface area ;
Whereas the preparation of a viticultural land
register, the introduction of a system of harvest and          (e) the classification of areas under vines according
stock declarations and the compilation of an annual                 to age of vine-stocks ;
forward estimate should make it possible to obtain
the statistical information essential for a knowledge          (f) classification of vine varieties according to year
of the market;                                                      of planting.
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                        Article 2                             (f) yield per hectare;
                                                              (g) analysis     and      assessment    of  organoleptic
1.    Each year beginning in 1962,                                 characteristics .
(a) producers of must and wine shall declare the
     quantities they have produced during the year;           3.     In addition , to the above factors, Member States
                                                              may take into account fair and traditional customs,
(b ) producers of must and wine, and merchants                determine such other conditions of production arid
     other than retailers, shall declare their stocks of      characteristics as shall be obligatory for quality wines
     must and wine, whether from the current year's           produced in specified regions.
     harvest or from the harvest of preceding years .
     Must and wine imported from third countries
     shall be stated separately.                                                        Article 5
2. So long as the development of the common                   Detailed rules for the application of Articles 1 , 2 and
wine-growing policy does not require stock                    3 shall be adopted, in accordance with the procedure
declarations to be made before the harvest on a date          laid down in Article 7, within six months from the
fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in           entry into force of this Regulation.
Article 7, the harvest and stock declarations shall be
made simultaneously not later than 31 December in
each Member State .                                                                     Article 6
3 . This provision shall not affect the maintenance           1 . A Management               Committee for Wine
in certain States of two different dates, one for stock       (hereinafter called the ' Committee') shall be
declarations and the other for harvest declarations,          established, consisting of representatives of Member
provided that the information collected is adjusted in        States and presided over by a representative of the
such a way that its use at Community level remains            Commission .
possible.
                                                              2.     Within the Committee the votes of Member
                        Article 3                             States, shall be weighted in accordance with Article
                                                              148 (2) of the Treaty. The Chairman shall not vote.
At the beginning of each year the Commission shall
draw up a forward estimate in order to determine the                                    Article 7
resources and assess the requirements of the
Community, including foreseeable imports from and
exports to third countries.                                   1 . Where this Regulation expressly provides for
                                                              the application of the procedure laid down in this
                                                              Article, the Chairman shall refer the matter to the
                        Article 4                             Committee either on his own initiative or at the
                                                              request of the representative of a Member State.
1 . Not later than 31 December 1962 the Council,
acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in          2.     The representative of the Commission shall
Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, shall adopt Community           submit a draft - of the measures to be taken . The
rules regarding quality wines produced in specified           Committee shall deliver its Opinion on such
regions.                                                      measures within a time limit to be set by the
                                                              Chairman according to the urgency of the questions
2.    These Community rules, which should take into           under consideration. An Opinion shall be adopted by
account traditional conditions of production so far as        a majority of twelve votes.
these are not such as to prejudice the policy of
encouraging quality production and the creation of a          3 . The Commission shall adopt measures which
single market, shall be based on the following factors :      shall apply immediately. However, if these measures
                                                              are not in accordance with the Opinion of the
 (a) demarcation of the area of production ;                  Committee, they shall forthwith be communicated by
                                                              the Commission to the Council . In that event the
(b) vine varieties ;                                          Commission may defer application of the measures
                                                              which it has adopted for not more than one month
(c) cultivation methods ;                                     from the date of such communication .
(d) wine-making methods ;
                                                              The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take
 (e) minimum natural alcoholic strength ;                      a different decision within one month.
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                       Article 8                                                     Article 9
The Committee may consider any other question                 At the end of the transitional period, the Council,
referred to it by its Chairman either on his own              acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the
initiative or at the request of the representative of a       Commission, shall decide in the light of experience
Member State .                                                whether to retain or amend the povisions of Article 7.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 April 1962.
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                              M. COUVE de MURVILLE