CELEX: 31964R0026
Language: en
Date: 1964-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 26/64/EEC of the Commission of 28 February 1964 laying down additional provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register, for its management and for keeping it up to date

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                               REGULATION No 26/64/EEC OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 28 February 1964
               laying down additional provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register,
                                     for its management and for keeping it up to date
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                          necessary for such particulars to be covered by the
 COMMUNITY ,                                                      sample surveys ;
Having regard to the Treaty               establishing   the      Whereas Regulation No 143 made special provisions
European Economic Community ;                                     for vines cultivated under glass;
Having regard to Regulation No 24 on the                          Whereas, in view of the need to ensure that the
progressive establishment of a common organisation                results of the sample surveys are comparable, the
of the market in wine,1 and in particular Article 5               methods by which the statistical inquiries are
thereof;                                                          conducted should be decided by the Commission ;
Having regard to Commission Regulation No 143                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
laying down initial provisions for the preparation of             are in accordance with the Opinion of the
the viticultural land register,2 and in particular Article        Management Committee for Wine;
7 thereof;
Whereas, to obtain more technical information                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
concerning the viticultural land register, it is
necessary that the information to be provided in
                                                                                             Article 1
application of Regulation No 143 should be
supplemented and defined in further detail and that
some particulars should be provided in respect of                 The following shall be substituted for Article 2 of
each vineyard plot ;                                             Regulation No 143 :
Whereas      the   information    to    be   sent   to   the          'The declaration provided for in Article 1 shall
Commission should be correlated by administrative                     include the following particulars :
unit for each of the Member States and should be
provided in a comparable form;                                        ( 1 ) In respect of the vineyard :
                                                                            — the name and address of the vine grower
Whereas, on account of the large quantity of                                    and the kind of management (by the owner
information obtained , provision should be made for
                                                                                himself or by others on his behalf, tenancy,
the viticultural land register to be kept up to date by                         other methods including the payment of
statistical inquiries based on sample surveys ; whereas                         rent in kind);
this method, which is sufficiently accurate, should be
accompanied by a complete revision of the                                   — the name and address of the landowners;
viticultural land register at regular intervals ;
                                                                            — the total area of the vineyard ;
Whereas, since changes in certain particulars included                      — the agricultural area worked ;
in the viticultural land register have no short-term
economic effect, it does not seem to be strictly                            — the total area under vines subdivided ac­
                                                                                cording to :
                                                                                 ( a) nature of produce,
1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p . 989/62. •
2 OJ No 127, 1.12.1962, p. 2789/62.                                             ( b ) type of cultivation,
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                (c) age of vine-stocks per vine variety ;         — the nature of produce;
         — the number of plots in the vineyard, the               — the selection of vine varieties;
               area of each and details enabling them to
               be identified .                                    — the type of cultivation .
     (2) In respect of each vineyard plot:                        Member States shall, within eight months of carrying
                                                                  out these surveys, inform the Commission of the
          (a) nature of produce,                                  results .
         (b) type of cultivation,
          (c) vine varieties and the area taken up by                                        Article 4
               each subdivided according to the age of
               the vine-stocks,                                   In the case of vines grown under glass, Member
         (d) number of vine-stocks per are,                       States shall communicate to the Commission only the
                                                                  following particulars :
          (e) distance between them,
                                                                  ( a) total, area under vines,
           (f) position,
                                                                   (b) areas under vines according to nature of produce,
          (g) kind of management, i.e. by the owner
               himself or by others on his behalf,                 (c) type of vineyard management,
               tenancy, other methods including the pay­          (d) classification of vineyards according to area,
               ment of rent in kind.'
                                                                  (e) classification of vineyard areas according to the
                                                                         age of the vine-stocks,
                           Article 2
                                                                    (f) selection of vine varieties according to the year of
1 . As soon as the viticultural land register is                         planting.
prepared, and not later than 30 June 1965 , Member
States shall communicate to the Commission the                    These particulars shall be communicated to the
following information :                                           Commission before 30 June 1965 .
— the number of vine plantations ;                                They shall be kept up to date :
— the total area of such plantations ;                            — by a general census every ten years of vines
                                                                        grown under glass, the first to be taken in 1976;
— the total area under vines subdivided according
    to :
                                                                  — in the meantime by biennial statistical sample
                                                                        surveys of the total area under vines and the areas
    (a) nature of produce,                                             planted with the different vine varieties.
    (b) type of cultivation.
                                                                  The Member States shall, within three months of
2.     Not later than 30 September 1966, Member                   carrying out these surveys, inform the Commission of
States shall communicate to the Commission in the                 the results .
form of comparable tables the information listed in
the Annex to this Regulation.
                                                                                             Article 5
                           Article 3
                                                                  The      information    to   be    communicated   to   the
The viticultural land register shall be kept up to date :         Commission by the Member States in accordance
                                                                  with the provisions of Articles 2 and 4 shall be
— by means of a complete revision every ten years,                supplied on the basis of the following administrative
    beginning in 1976;                                            units :
— and in the meantime by yearly statistical sample                — the Regierungsbezirk in the Federal Republic of
    surveys .                                                          Germany,
                                                                  — the department in the French Republic,
Such statistical sample surveys shall cover the areas
under vines indicating any new planting and                       — the province in the Italian Republic,
grubbing of vines, in relation to :
                                                                  — the entire national territory in the other Member
— the position;                                                        States .
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                           Article 6 s                             statistical sample surveys referred to in Articles 3 and
              . .       . „ ,             , .    ,   .,   .        4 and the form in which the results of such surveys
The Commission shall, after consulting the Member                  are m be communicated t0 it.
States, adopt the procedures for carrying out the
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 February 1964.
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                               The President
                                                                                            Walter HALLSTEIN
                                                            ANNEX
                                    Information covered by the tables referred to in Article 2
                            Table 1                                                             Table 7
Number of vine plantations and total area under vines,             In respect of plantations producing wine grapes and those
subdivided according to the size of the areas under vines          producing table grapes, and of those producing both wine
in the vine plantations, the kind of management, the type          grapes and table grapes, the number of vineyard plots and
of cultivation, nature of produce and the number of                their total area subdivided according to position, but not
vineyard plots per plantation.                                     according to category of size.
                            Table 2
                                                                                                Table 8
Number of vineyard plots and the area of each , subdivided
by categories of size of the vineyard plots, into the type of      In respect of plantations producing wine grapes and those
cultivation, nature of produce, the position and the number        producing table grapes, and of those producing both wine
of vine stocks per are.                                            grapes and table grapes, the areas under vines for each
                                                                   type of cultivation, subdivided according to age groups of
                            Table 3
                                                                   vine-stocks but not according to categories of size.
List of vine varieties subdivided according to nature of           The categories of size referred to in the preceding tables
produce and age group, and showing the areas which they            are the following :
cover.                                                                   \
                                                                   — in respect of agricultural areas worked belonging to
                            Table 4                                    vine plantations : under 0-5 ha, 0-5-1 ha, 1-2 ha, 2-5 ha,
                                                                       5-10 ha , 10-20 ha, 20-50 ha, 50-100 ha , 100 ha and
Number of vine plantations, their total area under vines,              over ;
the number of vineyard plots in each size category of the
areas under vines in the vine plantation, subdivided into          — in respect of areas of vine plantations under vines : under
size categories of the agricultural areas worked.                      0-10 ha, 0- 10-0*25 ha, 0-25-0-50 ha, 0-15-1 ha, 1-2 ha,
                                                                       2-5 ha, 5-10 ha, 10-20 ha, 20-30 ha, 30 ha and over ;
                            Table 5
Number of vine plantations, their total area under vines           — in respect of vineyard plots : under 0-05 ha, 0-05-0-10 ha,
and the number of vineyard plots, in respect of plantations            0-10-0-25 ha, 0-25-0-50 ha, 0-50-1 ha, 1-2 ha, 2-5 ha ,
producing wine grapes, plantations producing table grapes,             5 ha and over ;
and plantations producing both wine grapes and table
grapes, in terms of categories of size of the areas under          — in respect of the number of vine-stocks per are :
vines in the vine plantations.                                         A. Pure cultivation : under 20, 20-40, 40-70, 70-100,
                                                                             100 and over.
                            Table 6
                                                                       B. Mixed cultivation with vines as the predominant
In respect of plantations producing wine grapes and those                    crop : under 10, 10-20, 20-40, 40-70, 70 and over.
producing table grapes, and of those producing both wine               C. Mixed cultivation with - vines as secondary crop :
grapes and table grapes, the number of vineyard plots and                    under 5, 5-10, 10-20, 20-40, 40 and over.
the area under vines for each type of cultivation, subdivided
according to the kind of management, but not according             — in respect of the number of vineyard plots : 1, 2-3 ,
to categories of size.                                                 4-5-6, 7-8-9-10, 11 and over.
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