CELEX: 31978R2202
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2202/78 of 21 September 1978 on the granting of re-storage aid for table wine for which a storage contract was concluded during the 1977/78 wine-growing year

22. 9. 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 259/7
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2202/78
                                                    of 21 September 1978
              on the granting of re-storage aid for table wine for which a storage contract was
                                   concluded during the 1977/78 wine-growing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    ison with the total costs, a standard amount of aid
COMMUNITIES,                                                      should be fixed ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Economic Community,                                               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Wine,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­
sions for the common organization of the market in
wine (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1861 /78 (2), and in particular Articles 6a and 35
thereof,
                                                                                         Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76
of 13 August 1976 on storage contracts for table wine,            On application and subject to the conditions laid
grape must and concentrated grape must (3), as                    down in Article 2, aid may be granted for the
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2206/77 (4), lays
                                                                  restorage of table wine that is covered by a storage
down the procedure for concluding contracts ;
                                                                  contract under Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 in
                                                                  another location of another warehouse belonging to a
Whereas the quantities of table wine in stock are large           third party.
for the time of the year ; whereas this is due to the
fact that outlets during the current wine-growing year
are not absorbing the quantities available at the begin­                                 Article 2
ning of the said year ;
                                                                  Aid may be granted only where :
Whereas the wine that is under storage contracts is
stored in containers which may be required to store               — the distance is not more than 1 50 kilometres ;
the next harvest ;
                                                                      nevertheless, where storage capacity is not avail­
                                                                      able within this distance, the intervention agency
Whereas, in order that producers may store their next                 may authorize transport to the nearest appropriate
vintage under normal conditions, aid should be                        place of storage,
granted for the re-storage of table wine, but subject to
a limitation as to distance ;                                     — the storage contracts in question are either
                                                                      concluded or their validity is extended by the inter­
                                                                      vention agencies under Article 16 of Regulation
Whereas, in order to limit this measure to cases where                (EEC) No 2015/76 before 1 September 1978 and,
it appears economically justified, only those storage                 in the case of long-term storage contracts, expire
contracts which are concluded or the validity of which                after 20 October 1978,
has been extended by the intervention agencies
during a given period should be considered ; whereas,             — the re-storage takes place between 15 September
in order to ensure that the measure is properly imple­                and 20 October 1978 and the transport is carried
                                                                      out in one or more vehicles,
mented, provisions should also be adopted concerning
the nature of the transport and the date of submission            — applications for aid together with the supporting
of the application ;                                                  documents are submitted before 15 November
                                                                      1978 to the intervention agency of the Member
                                                                      State concerned .
Whereas, since there is little time for administrative
implementation and since the quantities involved are
often small and the transport costs small by compar
                                                                                          Article 3
(') OJ No   L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No   L 215, 4. 8 . 1978 , p. 1 .
(J) OJ No   L 221 , 14. 8 . 1976, p. 20.                          The aid for all table wines shall be 1.10 units of
 H  OJ No   L 255, 6. 10. 1977, p. 13.                             account per hectolitre.
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                        Article 4                                                     Article 5
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate
measures to ensure the necessary controls ; they shall,
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
in particular, check that the re-storage of the wine has
actually taken place.
                                                             following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                              the European Communities.
2. Member States shall notify the Commission by
31 December 1978 at the latest of the quantities of
wine which have entered into re-storage.                      It shall apply from 15 September 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 21 September 1978 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                            Vice-President