CELEX: 31970R2232
Language: en
Date: 1970-11-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2232/70 of the Commission of 3 November 1970 on private storage aid for table wines which stand in close economic relationship with the R I and A I types of table wine

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4.11.70                                Official Journal of the European^ Communities                            No L 241 / 17
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2232/70 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 3 November 1970
              on private storage aid for table wines which stand in close economic relationship with
                                             the R I and A I types of table wine
THE     COMMISSION       OF      THE    EUROPEAN       COM­          wines, whose characteristics are close to those of the
MUNITIES,                                                            R I and A I types, do not qualify for storage aid and
                                                                    consequently compete with the above-mentioned
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                         types of wine;
European Economic Community;
                                                                    Whereas there is a risk of a further fall in prices if the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        table wines referred to above, which stand in close
816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional                     economic relationship with the R I and A I types of
provisions for the common organisation of the                       table wine, continue to escape intervention designed
market in wine, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   to stabilise prices ; whereas, therefore, provision
1253/70,2 and in particular the second subparagraph                 should be made whereby those wines may qualify for
of Article 5 (7) thereof;                                           storage contracts ;
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (3 ) of                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that if the                     are in accordance with the Opinion of the
state of the market so requires a decision may be                   Management Committee for Wine;
taken to grant aid also for table wines of a type other
than that for which the average price remains less                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
than the activating price for two consecutive weeks,
where    such    wines      stand    in   close    economic                                 Article 1
relationship with the latter type;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1580/70®                     1 . The private storage aid referred to in Article 6
of 4 August 1970 on private storage aid for table                   (3 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 shall be
wines of types R I, A I and A II established that                   granted in respect of table wines which are not of
private storage aid should be granted for those types               types R I, R III, A I, A II and A III but which have an
of table wine; whereas the amount of such aids was                  actual alcoholic strength of not less than 9-5° and
fixed in Article 6 (3 ) of Commission Regulation                    not more than 12-5° .
(EEC) No 1437/704 of 20 July 1970 on storage                        2.    The aid referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
contracts for table wine;                                           granted for such length of time as private storage aid
Whereas the prices of table wines on the Community                  is granted under Regulation (EEC) No 1580/70 for
markets are at present falling; whereas this trend is               the type of table wine which stands in close economic
revealed by the fact that at several marketing centres              relationship with the table wine in question.
the prices for the types of table wine referred to                  The red or rose table wines referred to in paragraph
above have fallen below the activating price since                  1 stand in close economic relationship with the R I
the beginning of the 1970/1971 wine-growing                         type of table wine.
year; . whereas those prices have not yet risen
above the activating prices in spite of the intervention            The white table wines referred to in paragraph 1
measures activated by Regulation (EEC) No 1580/70 ;                 stand in close economic relationship with the A I
whereas that situation arises from the fact that table              type of table wine.
                                                                                            Article 2
1 OJ No L 99 , 5.5.1970, p . 1 .
2 OJ No L 143 , 1.7.1970, p. 1 .                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
3 OJ No L 172 , 5.8.1970, p . 38 .                                  day following its publication in the Official Journal
4 OJ No L 160 , 22.7.1970, p . 16.                                  of the European Communities.
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    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
    States.
    Done at Brussels, 3 November 1970.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                        The President
                                                                    Franco M. MALFATTI