CELEX: 31976R2790
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2790/76 of 18 November 1976 derogating from the obligation to distil wines made from table grapes

19 . 11 . 76                      Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 319/21
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2790/76
                                                of 18 November 1976
                    derogating from the obligation to distil wines made from table grapes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                whereas in the circumstances it seems advisable to
COMMUNITIES,                                                  derogate from the obligation referred to in Article 24b
                                                              and to authorize the enrichment of wine by means of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                              concentrated grape musts made from table grapes ;
Economic Community,
                                                              Whereas this derogation should be limited to those
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                              regions where the climatic conditions have led to the
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­         production of table grapes of such mediocre quality
sions for the common organization of the market in            that they are not fit to be marketed ;
wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 11 67/76 (2), and in particular Article 24b (4) thereof,     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas paragraph 1 of the said Article provides that,        are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                              ment Committee for Wine,
except where a derogation has been decided on, wines
made from table grapes may only be transported to a
distillery for the purposes of distillation ;                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the 1976 harvest is average and even below
average in Italy ; whereas, moreover in that Member                                    Article 1
State the average alcoholic strength is low ; whereas
coupage with wines of high alcoholic strength is all          Table wines which have been produced by enrich­
the more difficult as the wines with low alcoholic            ment by means of concentrated grape musts made
strength are mainly the wines of the south of Italy           from grapes of the varieties listed in the classification
intended for coupage ;                                        of vine varieties as table grapes produced in 1976 in
                                                              the Italian part of Zone C III and in the administra­
Whereas in these circumstances an increased demand            tive districts of L'Aquila, Chieti, Pescara, Teramo shall
for concentrated grape musts is to be expected ;              be exempt from the obligation laid down in Article
whereas to meet this demand producers might decide            24b of Regulation (EEC) No 816/7Q .
to concentrate grape musts which would otherwise be
made into wine ; whereas in this way the volume of                                    A rticle 2
production might subsequently be reduced with
adverse effects on the market ; whereas moreover the          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
table grapes are frequently not of sufficiently good          publication in the Official Journal of the European
quality to be marketed ;                                      Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 November 1976.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 135, 24. 5. 1976, p. 42.