CELEX: 31977R2212
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2212/77 of 6 October 1977 on the granting of aid to certain producers of wine grapes intended for the production of table wines in certain wine-growing regions affected by natural disasters

No L 256/4                              Official Journal pf the European Communities                               7. 10 . 77
                                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2212/77
                                                       of 6 October 1977
                on the granting of aid to certain producers of wine grapes intended for the
                production of table wines in certain wine-growing regions affected by natural
                                                             disasters
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         grant them aid for this purpose ; whereas such a
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        measure avoids the risk of non-enriched wines of
                                                                     mediocre quality finding their way, at excessively low
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               prices, into the table wines market to the detriment of
 Economic Community,                                                 the stability of that market ; whereas, furthermore, this
                                                                     measure may bring about an increase in the volume of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       grape must which will be concentrated and hence a
 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­               drop in the total volume of production supplied to the
 sions for the common organization of the market in                  market ; whereas, in consequence, this measure serves
wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     to regularize the table wines market ;
 1 679/77 (2), and in particular Article 38 thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, in order to give preference to those
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the                   producers most severely affected, it is appropriate to
 value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to              limit the granting of this aid to producers who are
 be applied for the purposes of the common agricul­                  able to furnish proof of a yield lower than 50 hecto­
 tural policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)               litres per hectare ;
 No 2543/73 (4), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Whereas it is necessary to fix the aid at an amount
                                                                    which takes account of the market price for concen­
Whereas Article 38 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70                     trated grape must ;
 provides that measures of derogation may be decided
upon to remedy an exceptional situation resulting                   Whereas the application of the measures provided for
 from natural disasters ;
                                                                     in this Regulation extends beyond 15 December
                                                                     1977 ; whereas it is necessary, in order to avoid any
Whereas in certain regions of the Community there                    discrimination among the producers concerned, to
were severe frosts during the months of March and                    provide for the application of a single representative
April and, during the summer, exceptional rainfall                   rate for the payments effected pursuant to this Regula­
 and reduced sunshine ;
                                                                     tion ; whereas it is appropriate to use the representa­
                                                                     tive rate applicable in the wine sector for the 1977/78
Whereas good weather during these months is essen­                  wine-growing year ;
 tial for a good harvest ; whereas, in consequence, the
abnormal climatic conditions referred to accordingly
constitute a natural disaster ; whereas it follows from             Whereas the Monetary Committee will be consulted ;
this that the wines produced from grapes harvested in               whereas, in view of the urgency, it is appropriate to
these disaster-affected regions will not naturally reach            adopt the measures envisaged in accordance with
the minimum alcoholic strength laid down for table                  Article 3 (2) of Regulation No 129,
wines ;
Whereas the Member States may, under Article 18 of
Regulation (EEC) No 816/70, authorize the natural
alcoholic strength to be increased ; whereas, in the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
regions in question, this increase is effected by the
addition of concentrated grape must to the basis
products ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, in order to encourage producers who are
threatened by heavy losses to use concentrated grape                Aid shall be granted on the terms laid down in this
must in the interests of quality, it appears necessary to           Regulation to producers of wine grapes intended for
                                                                    the production of table wines who are able to furnish
(') OJ  No  L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ No  L 187, 27. 7. 1977, p. 15.                              proof of a yield lower than 50 hectolitres per hectare
P)  OJ  No  106, 30. 10 . 1962, p. 2553/62.                         from the 1977 harvest and whose holdings are situated
(4) OJ  No  L 263, 19 . 9 . 1973, p. 1 .                            in certain yet to be defined parts :
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(a) of the following French departments :                    2. Before granting the aid, the intervention agen­
                                                             cies must satisfy themselves that the conditions laid
        Alpes de                   Gironde
                                                             down in Article 1 are fulfilled .
        Haute-Provence             Haute-Garonne
        Alpes maritimes            Hérault
        Ardèche                    Landes                                                  Article 4
        Ariège                     Lot
        Aude                       Lot-et-Garonne            The       Member       States  shall   communicate to the
        Aveyron                    Lozère                     Commission at the latest by 15 June 1978 the
        Bouches-du-Rhône           Pyrenees-Atlantiques       number of producers who have received aid, the quan­
        Charente                   Hautes-Pyrénées            tities of wine subjected to enrichment, and the quanti­
         Corse du Sud              Pyrénées-Orientales        ties of concentrated must used to do so expressed in
        Haute-Corse                Tarn                       degrees of alcoholic strength per hectolitre.
        Dordogne                   Tam-et-Garonne
        Gard                       Var                                                     Article 5
        Gers                       Vaucluse ;
                                                              1 . The Member States shall appoint an intervention
(b) of Northern Italy                                         agency responsible for applying this Regulation.
whose 1977 harvest was affected by natural disasters.         2. The competent body shall be the intervention
                                                              agency of the Member State in whose territory the
                         Article 2                            grapes have been harvested.
 1 . The amount of the aid provided for in Article 1
                                                                                           Article 6
 is hereby fixed, for concentrated must used in the
operations described in Articles 18 and 19 of Regula­         Rules for the application of this Regulation, and in
 tion (EEC) No 816/70, at 0-87 unit of account per
                                                              particular the determination of the parts of French
 degree of potential alcoholic strength per hectolitre.       departments and of Northern Italy referred to in
 2. The conversion into national currency of the aid          Article 1 , shall be adopted in accordance with the
 referred to in paragraph 1 shall be effected by means        procedure laid down in Article 7 of Regulation No
 of the representative rate applicable in the wine sector     24 H.
 during the 1977/78 wine-growing year.
                                                                                           Article 7
                         Article 3
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 1 . Producers wishing to take advantage of the aid            following its publication in the Official Journal of
 provided for in Article 1 must apply to the competent         the European Communities.
 intervention agency at the latest by 15 November
 1977 .                                                        It shall be applicable from 15 September 1977.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 6 October 1977.
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                               A. HUMBLET
                                                               ( i ) OJ No 30 , 20 . 4. 1962, p. 989/62.