CELEX: 31972R0176
Language: en
Date: 1972-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 176/72 of 26 January 1972 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 on storage contracts for table wine

44                                        Official Journal of the European Communities
No L 23/20                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              27. 1 . 72
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 176/72
                                                        of 26 January 1972
                    supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 on storage contracts for table wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       derogation should therefore be confined to the 1971/
COMMUNITIES,                                                         72 wine-growing year;
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                         Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of
European Economic Community,                                         the Management Committee for Wine,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional
provisions for the common organization of the                                                Article 1
market in wine (*), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2722/71 (2), and in particular Article 6 (4)                The following shall be substituted for the second
thereof,                                                             subparagraph of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     No 1437/70 :
Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/
70 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 91/                       'Notwithstanding the previous subparagraph, the
72 (4), stipulates that a storage contract may not be                    period of validity of a storage contract for which
concluded for a period beginning before the date of                      written application is received by the competent
the conclusion of the contract ;                                         agency between 1 December 1971 and 31 August
                                                                         1972 shall commence on the day on which the
Whereas the way in which the intervention agencies                       application is received.
operate in one producer Member State does not yet                        However, the period of validity of storage
permit storage contracts to be concluded promptly                        contracts for which written application is received
after presentation of the application; whereas, to                       by the competent agency after 29 December 1971
mitigate the consequences of this situation for                          shall commence not more than 30 days before
producers in that Member State, provision should be                      the date of the conclusion of the contract.'
made for a measure of retroactivity in respect of
contracts for which - applications are received after                                        Article 2
30 November 1971 ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
Whereas intervention agencies should however be in                   day following its publication in the Official Journal
a position to operate effectively; whereas this                      of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 January 1972.
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                      Franco M. MALFATTI
 C)  OJ No  L 99, 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No  L 282, 23 . 12. 1971 , p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No  L 160, 22. 7. 1970, p. 16.
 (4) OJ No  L 11 , 14. 1 . 1972, p . 29.