CELEX: 31971R0617
Language: en
Date: 1971-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 617/71 of the Commission of 24 March 1971 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 on storage contracts for table wine

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    165
25.3.71                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 71/ 15
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 617/71 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 24 March 1971
                      amending Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 on storage contracts for table wine
 THE    COMMISSION       OF   THE  EUROPEAN       COM­        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 MUNITIES,                                                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                              Management Committee for Wine ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                        Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional
provisions for the common organisation of the                 The following text shall be substituted for the text of
market in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 :
No 2612/70,2 and in particular Article 37 thereof;
                                                                  '1.   A contract may not be concluded for a
                                                                  period      beginning   before  the   date   of  the
Whereas Article 8 (l ) of Commission Regulation                   conclusion of the contract.
(EEC) No 1437/703 of 20 July 1970 on storage
contracts for table wine, as last amended by                      However, for the 1970/1971 wine-growing year
Regulation (EEC) No 436/71 ,4 provides that for the               and from 15 January 1971 , the period of validity
1970/1971 wine-growing year and for contract                      of a contract shall begin on the day that the
applications made and accepted since 15 January                   written application is received by the competent
1971 , the period of validity of a contract shall begin           authority. In the case of a contract application
on the day that the written application is received by            made before 15 January 1971 and in respect of
the competent authority;                                          which no contract was concluded by that date,
                                                                  the period of validity of the contract shall begin
Whereas this provision has placed at a disadvantage               on 15 January 1971 .'
those who before 15 January 1971 made applications
in respect of which contracts were not concluded                                        Article 2
before that date; whereas, to meet this difficulty,
provision should beVnade in such cases for the period         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
of validity of the contract to begin on 15 January            following its publication in the Official Journal of the
1971 :                                                       European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 24 March 1971 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                   Franco M. MALFATTI
1 OJ No L 99, 5.5.1970, p. 1.
2 OJ No L 281, 27.12.1970, p. 6.
» OJ No L 160, 22.7.1970, p. 16.
4 OJ No L 48, 27.2.1971, p. 73.