CELEX: 31976R1606
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1606/76 of 29 June 1976 extending and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3576/73 on imports of the wine product exported under the label of 'Cyprus Sherry', originating in and coming from Cyprus, and the introduction of subsidies for similar wine products produced in the Community as originally constituted and exported to Ireland and the United Kingdom

No L 175/6                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 7.76
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1606/76
                                                         of 29 June 1976
              extending and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3576/73 on imports of the wine product
              exported under the label of 'Cyprus Sherry', originating in and coming from Cyprus,
              and the introduction of subsidies for similar wine products produced in the Community
                       as originally constituted and exported to Ireland and the United Kingdom
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3417/75 extended the
                                                                    arrangements provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       3576/73 , so that they could apply to the marketing
 European Economic Community, and in particular                     of the 1974 harvest;
 Article 113 thereof,
                                                                    Whereas, contrary to estimates, it was impossible to
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 market this harvest completely in 1975 ; whereas,
Whereas Regulation           (EEC)     No    1253/73 (1), as        moreover, relatively large stocks have remained from
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3576/73 (2), which                  the preceding years ; whereas, to enable these to be
was last extended and amended by Regulation (EEC)                   cleared, the aforementioned arrangements should
No 3417/75 (3), introduced arrangements for imports                 applv until 30 June 1977,
 of the wine product exported under the label of
'Cyprus Sherry', originating in and coming from                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Cyprus, and made provisions for subsidies for
similar wine products produced in the Community                                                Article 1
as originally constituted and exported to Ireland and
the United Kingdom ; whereas the arrangements                       Regulation (EEC) No 3576/73 is hereby amended as
concerned are valid only until 30 June 1976;                        follows :
Whereas, in the exchange of letters provided for in                 ( 1 ) in Article 1 , the date of 30 June 1977 shall be
Article 12 of the Protocol laying down certain                            substituted for 30 June 1976;
provisions relating to the Agreement establishing an
Association between the European Economic                           (2) in Article 1 , the amount of 200 000 hectolitres
Community and the Republic of Cyprus consequent                           shall be substituted for 100 000 hectolitres ;
on the Accession of new Member States to the
                                                                    (3) in Article 2 ( 1 ), the amounts of 200 000, 2 000
European Economic Community (4), the Community                            and 198 000 hectolitres shall be substituted for
undertook to extend the arrangements concerned to                         100 000, 1 000 and 99 000 hectolitres respectively;
the marketing of wines of the 1974 harvest;
                                                                    (4) in Article 4, the date of 30 June 1977 shall be
Whereas the Republic of Cyprus adopted new rules                          substituted for 30 June 1976.
governing wine production on 31 August 1973 ;
whereas these rules, following the amendments made
to them on 21 December 1973 , correspond to those                                             Article 2
of the Community and have been applicable since
 1 January 1975 ;                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Luxembourg, 29 June 1976.
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                        G. THORN
(!) OJ No L 133 , 21 . 5 . 1973 , p . 115 .
(2) OJ No L 359, 28. 12. 1973 , p. 33 .
(3) OJ No L 337, 31 . 12. 1975, p. 5 .
(4) OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1973, p. 94,