CELEX: 51975PC0136
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-03
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EEC) N° 1878/74 laying down, for the 1974/75 wine-growing year, the price to be paid for alcohol delivered to intervention agencies under the obligation to distil the by-products of wine-making, and the maximum amount of the contribution towards this price by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                   COM(75)136 final
                                                   Brussels , 3 April 1975
                                   Proposal for a
                          REGULATION ( EEC ) OE THE COUNCIL
             amending Regulation ( EEC ) N° 1878/74 laying down , for
             the 1974/75 wine-growing year , the price to be paid
             for alcohol delivered to intervention agencies under
             the obligation to distil the by-products of wine-making ,
             and the maximum amount of the contribution towards this
             price by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
             Guidance and Guarantee Fund .
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
  COM( 75 ) 136 final
 ---pagebreak---                               EXPLMATORY MEMORANDUM
Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1873/74 of the Council of 15 July 1974 laying down,
for the I974/1975 wine-growing year , the price to "be paid for alcohol
delivered to intervention agencies under the obligation to distil the by­
products of wine -making , and the maximum amount of the contribution towards
this price by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance
and Guarantee Fund, has fixed the maximum amount of the contribution by the
Guarantee Section of the EAGGP , taking into account the situation on the
market for alcohol at that time , at 0 units of account per hectolitre/
degree of alcohol .
Ileanwhile , a considerable fall in prices has occurred on the market for
alcohol .
Account should now be taken of this situation, the Council having declared
that it would review the maximum amount of the EAGGP contribution upon a
proposal from the Commission , should market conditions alter during the
current wine -growing year .
 ---pagebreak---                               FINANCIAL CONSEQUMCES
The proposed regulation provides for the fixing of the maximum amounts of
the EAGGP contribution as the difference between the buying-in price and ,
selling price of the alcohol offered to intervention agencies in pursuance
of Regulation (ESC ) No 1873/74 ( compulsory distillation of the by-products
of wine-making) .
The amount is fixed at 0 for alcohol of a strength of between 52° and 95°
and is fixed at 0.06 u.a./hl/° for alcohol of a strength of more than. 95° »
Per an estimated quantity of 200 000 hi and an average strength of 96° 'the
maximum EAGGF expenditure will amount to 1.2 million u.a .
The expenditure is covered by Article 692 of the 1975 Budget of the European
Communities .
Budget article 692                 Erpenditure               Appropr iat i ons
      1973                         2 641 500
      1974                                                   token entry
      1975                                                   3 300 000
 ---pagebreak---                             .     Proposal for a
                    REGULATION (EEC ) Ho       /75 OP THE COUNCIL
                                  of
            amending Regulation (3EC) No 1878/74 laying do!"n , for the
            1974/75 wine-grovring year , the price to be paid for alcohol
            delivered to intervention agencies under the obligation to
            distil the by-products of wine-making , and the maximum
            amount of the contribution towards this price by the Guaran­
            tee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Gua­
            rantee Fund .
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community •
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 8I6/7O ^ of 28 April 1970 lay­
ing dovn additional provisions for the common organization of the market in
*rino , as last amended by Regulation (EEC ). No 3166/74 t and in particular
the second subparagraph of Article 24 ( 3 )»
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas Article 1 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1878/74^ of 15 July
1974 laying doviij for the 1974/75 Vine-growing year , the price to be paid
for alcohel delivered to intervention agencies under the obligation to distil
the by-products of wine-ciakihg, and the maximum amount of the contribution
towards this price by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
Guidance and Guarantee Fund , fixed the maximum amount of the contribution
by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
 ^O.J. No L 99 , 5 Ilay I97O , p. 1
   O.J. No L 338 , 17 December 1974 , p.l ; .•      • r •
  3O.J. No L 198 , 20 July 1974 , p. 6
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Fund for the 1974/75 wine-growing year at 0 unit of account per hectolitre/
degree of alcohol :
IJhereas the market price of alcohol with a strength of more than 95 degrees
of alcohol per hectolitre has recently fallen below the buying- in price
fixed in Article 1 ( l ) of that Regulation * whereas a, maximum amount of the
contribution by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance
and Guarantee Fund should therefore be fixed which " 'ill take account of that
situation ;
HâS AD0PT3D THIS REGULATION :
                                     Article 1
The text of Article. 1 (2 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No I878/74 is replaced by the
following :
"2 . The maximum amount of the contribution by the Guarantee Section of the
     European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund in respect of sales to
     intervention agencies shall be as follows :
     a) sales effected between 1 September 1974 and 31 March 1975 '
        -in the case of products with an . alcoholic strength of more than 52°
         but not more than 95° 1 0 unit of account per hectolitre/degree of
         alcohol ,
        -in the case of products with an alcoholic strength of more than 95° 1
         0 unit of account per hectolitre/degree of alcohol ?
     b) sales effected between 1 April 1975 8^- 31 August 1975 '
       - in the case of products with an, alcoholic strength of more than 52°
          but nd mors than 95° » 0 unit of account per hectolitre/degree of
          alcohol ,;                                                    , "■ ;■ .
       - in. the case of products with an alcoholic strength of more than - 95° . t
          0.006 .unit of account per hectolitre/degree of alcohol .
                                      Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publi­
cation in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .                              ,                         ...
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Done at Brussels ,                                            For the Council
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