CELEX: 31990R3669
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3669/90 of 18 December 1990 laying down a transitional measure relating to coupage of table wine in Spain for 1991

19 . 12. 90                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 356/25
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3669/90
                                                     of 18 December 1990
                   laying down a transitional measure relating to coupage of table wine in Spain
                                                             for 1991
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                    in accordance with the Management Committee for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Wine,
Economic Community,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal ('), and in particular Article 90 thereof,
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas Article 16 (5) of Council Regulation (EEC) No               1 . Until 31 December 1991 , coupage of a wine suitable
822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of               for yielding a white table wine or of a white table wine
the market in wine (2), as last amended by Regulation               with a wine suitable for yielding a red table wine or with a
(EEC) No 1325/90 f), prohibits coupage of a white table             red table wine shall be permitted on Spanish territory
wine with a red table wine ; whereas the abovementioned
                                                                    provided that the product obtained has the characteristics
practice forms part of the arrangements in force in Spain           of a red table wine and that the percentage of red wine
and whereas Article        125 of the Act of Accession
                                                                    used is not less than 65 % .
authorizes in it until 31 December 1989, and Regulation
(EEC) No 3985/89 (4) confirms this authorization until 31           2. Until the date in paragraph 1 , coupage in the
December 1990 ;                                                     Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 of
                                                                    Spanish wine other than white table wine with wine from
Whereas the conditions for the abandonment of this                  other Member States shall be prohibited.
practice are not yet ripe in that country as they are related
to the structure of wine-growing and consumers' attitudes,          3. Spanish red and rose table wines may only be the
                                                                    subject of trade with the other Member States or be
which change relatively slowly ; whereas the                        exported to third countries if they are not obtained from
abandonment of the abovementioned practice would
result in the immediate future in a serious imbalance on            coupage as referred to in paragraph 1 .
the market generating a shortage of red wine and a                  For the purposes of applying paragraph 3, each
substantial surplus of white wine, which would require              competent authority designated by Spain shall guarantee
major intervention operations ; whereas the need to avoid           until 30 June 1992 the origin of Spanish red table wine
very serious disturbance of the market justifies the                by affixing a stamp preceded by the words 'wine not
adoption of a transitional measure ;                                obtained from white/red coupage' in the box reserved for
                                                                    official remarks on document provided for in
Whereas, so that the possibility of carrying out coupage            Commission Regulation (EEC) No 986/89 (*).
involving white table wine and red table wine remains
limited to the country where it is necessary, care must be                                   Article 2
taken to ensure that wine obtained from this practice may
not be mixed with other Community wines ;                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                   Done at Brussels, 18 December 1990.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No   L 302, 15. 11 . 1985, p. 9 .
(2) OJ No   L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No   L  132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 19.
0   OJ No   L 380, 29. 12. 1989, p. 31 .                            0 OJ No L 106, 18. 4. 1989, p. 1 .