CELEX: 31977R1518
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1518/77 of 6 July 1977 enabling short-term private storage contracts to be concluded for table wines closely related economically to the R I type of table wine

7 . 7 . 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 169 / 15
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1518/77
                                                         of 6 July 1977
               enabling short-term private storage contracts to be concluded for table wines
                              closely related economically to the RI type of table wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     covered by the said intervention measures, and
COMMUNITIES,                                                       consequently may prevent the measures taken from
                                                                   having the effect desired ; whereas, therefore, storage
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              contracts should be allowed to be concluded for such
Economic Community,                                                red table wines ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
sions for the common organization of the market in                 ment Committee for Wine,
wine ( J ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
528 /77 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of
Article 5 (7) thereof,                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (2)
thereof provides that, if the state of the market so                                       Article 1
requires, a decision may be taken to allow short-term
storage contracts to be concluded in respect of table              1 . The power to conclude short-term private
wines other than those of the type for which this possi­           storage contracts for the the RI type of table wine
bility exists they may be concluded, where such table              granted by Regulation (EEC) No 1328 /77 is hereby
wines are closely related economically to that type of             extended to red table wines that are closely related
table wine ;                                                       economically to the RI type of table wine.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1328 /77                    2.     Red table wines with an actual alcoholic strength
                                                                   of not less than 12° and not more than 12-5°, and
of 21 June 1677 (3) enabled short-term private storage
contracts to be concluded for the RI type of table                 which do not fall within type R III, shall be consid­
wine ;                                                             ered to be closely related economically to the RI type
                                                                   of table wine .
Whereas table wine prices on the Community market
are at present falling ; whereas this trend has been               3 . The power referred to in paragraph 1 shall
marked by the fact that intervention measures have                 continue for as long as the same power exists under
had to be brought into effect for the RI type of table             Regulation (EEC) No 1328/77 for the RI type of table
                                                                   wine .
wine ; whereas, however, large quantities of red table
wines that are closely related economically to the RI
type of table wine are on the market and are subject                                       Article 2
to the general decline in prices ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Whereas these red table wines that are closely related             following its publication in the Official Journal of
economically to the RI type of table wine are not                  the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels 6 July 1977.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(') OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 69 , 16 . 3 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 153, 22. 6. 1977, p. 7.