CELEX: 31968R0039
Language: en
Date: 1968-01-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 39/68 of the Commission of 11 January 1968 amending Regulation No 26/64/EEC as regards keeping the viticultural land register up to date

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                           REGULATION (EEC) No 39/68 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 11 January 1968
                     amending Regulation No 26/64/EEC as regards keeping the viticultural
                                               land register up to date
THE    COMMISSION       OF   THE    EUROPEAN       COM­        or which have yet to be made in pursuance of other
MUNITIES ,                                                     provisions should be used for keeping the register
                                                               up to date and, as regards stock nurseries and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­             cutting nurseries, all relevant information which can
pean Economic Community ;                                      should be used for that purpose by the Member
                                                               States ;
Having regard to Regulation No 241 on the pro­
gressive establishment of a common organisation of             Whereas, in order to follow the development of vine
the market in wine, and in particular Article 5                cultivation under glass, complete and systematic
thereof;                                                       information communicated every two years by Mem­
                                                               ber States is preferable to sample surveys ; whereas
Having regard to Commission Regulation No 143 2                it is appropriate, therefore, to amend Article 4 of
laying down initial provisions for the preparation of          Regulation No 26/64/EEC accordingly ;
the viticultural land register, and in particular
Article 7 thereof;                                             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu­
                                                               lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the
Whereas the preparations for the establishment of              Management Committee for Wine;
the viticultural land register have been completed
or nearly so ; whereas it is therefore necessary to            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
draw up measures for keeping it up to date ;
                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas, in order to understand the situation and
development of the Community market in wine, the               The following provisions shall be substituted or the
development of the area under vines and the selection          provisions of Article 3 of Regulation No 26/64/EEC :
of vine varieties employed in each of the adminis­
trative units of the Member States need to be                  ' 1 . The viticultural land register shall be completely
followed continuously and in detail as regards the type        revised every ten years, beginning in 1977.
of cultivation, the nature of produce and the position
of each vineyard plot;                                         In the meantime the register shall be kept up to date
                                                               each year by declarations on the planting and
Whereas, by reason of the foregoing, it is preferable          grubbing of vines effected during the period referred
that a system of yearly declarations on the planting           to in paragraph 2.
and grubbing of vines should replace the statistical
sample surveys provided for in Article 3 of Com­                2. The declarations shall be made in writing by
mission Regulation No 26/64/EEC3 of 28 February                the natural and legal persons referred to in Article
1964 laying down additional provisions for the                  1 of Regulation No 143 and shall be sent before
preparation of the viticultural land register;                  15 June to the authorities appointed in accordance
                                                               with national provisions. All planting or grubbing
                                                               of vineyard plots or of parts thereof effected during
Whereas, for the sake of technical simplicity, the              the period from 1 June of the preceding year to
official declarations which are already in existence            31 May of the year during which the declaration is
                                                               made shall be shown separately in the declarations .
1 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 989/62.
2 OJ No 127, 1.12.1962 , p. 2789/62.                            However, the first declaration shall cover the period
3 OJ No 48 , 19.3.1964, p. 753/64.                              from the date of the establishment of the register
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 to 31 May of the year in which that first declaration             — the nature of produce and
 is made .
                                                                   — age groups .
 3 . The declarations shall include the following              7. Not later than 30 November of each year,
 particulars :                                                 Member states shall notify the Commission, in
 — the name and address of the vine grower,                    triplicate, of the results of the updating of their
— the name and address of the owner(s ) of the                 records in accordance with paragraph 6 above.'
      vineyard plot or of the part thereof planted or
      grubbed,                                                                          Article 2
— particulars required to identify the vineyard plot           The following Article shall be added to Regulation
      or the part thereof,                                     No 26/64/EEC :
— the area of the vineyard plot or the part thereof
      planted or grubbed,                                                            'Article 3 (b)
 — the position,
                                                               1 . For the purposes applying this Regulation, the
— the nature of produce,                                       definitions of "nature of produce", "type of culti­
— the type of cultivation,                                     vation" and "vineyard plot" shall be those given in
— the selection of vine varieties,                             Article 3 of Regulation No 143 .
— the age of grubbed vine-stocks.
                                                               2. For the purposes of this Regulation :
4. Until the entry into force of Community pro­               — "planting" means the planting of vine plants or
visions providing for declarations on the production               parts of vine plants over a uniform surface, with
and marketing of vegetative propagation material                   the intention of creating or renewing a vineyard
for vines, Member States shall, in order to keep the               plot or part of a vineyard plot;
viticultural land register up to date, make use of all        — "grubbing" means the complete removal of all
relevant information about stock nurseries and cutting             vine-stocks from a vineyard plot or from part
nurseries .                                                        of a vineyard plot.'
5 . Member States may exempt the natural and legal                                      Article 3
persons referred to in Article 1 of Regulation No 143
from making the declarations provided for in para­             1 . The words ' in 1977 ' shall be substituted for the
graph 1 , or from furnishing a part of the information        words 'in 1976' appearing in the first indent of the
mentioned in paragraph 3 , if they are in possession          third subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No
of such information through other declarations made           26/64/EEC .
in accordance with official provisions.
                                                              2. The words 'biennial surveys' shall be substituted
6. Member States shall keep their viticultural land           for the words 'biennial statistical sample surveys'
registers up to date on the basis of the declarations         appearing in the second indent of the third subpara­
and information mentioned in paragraph 1 , 4 and 5            graph of Article 4 of Regulation No '26/64/EEC.
as regards ;
                                                              3 . The words 'in accordance with the provisions of
( a) the total area under vines, subdivided according         Articles 2 to 4' shall be substituted for the words
      to :
                                                              'in accordance with the provisions of Articles 2 and
     — the type of cultivation,                               4' appearing in Article 5 of Regulation No 26/64/
                                                              EEC.
     — the nature of produce and
     — the position, and                                                                Article 4
(b) the area covered by each of the vine varieties,           Article 4 of Regulation No 26/64/EEC is hereby
     subdivided according to :                                repealed .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 11 January 1968 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                         J. REY