CELEX: 31973R0970
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 970/73 of the Commission of 10 April 1973 fixing the average producer prices for wine

No L 95/8                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                           11 . 4. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 970/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 10 April 1973
                                                 fixing the average producer prices for wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           Whereas arrangements for the notification by the
COMMUNITIES,                                                             Member States of quotations and information re­
                                                                         lated thereto are specified in Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                       1020/70 ; whereas, where this information is not
pean Economic Community;                                                 available for any marketing centre, the average price
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             for the preceding week must be maintained ;
816/70 (*) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional
provisions for the common organization of the mar­                       Whereas the average price for the type of wine in
ket in wine as last amended by the Act (2 ) annexed                      question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as
to the Treaty (3 ) on the Accession of new Member                        appropriate; whereas this price must be fixed every
States to the European Economic Community and                            Tuesday; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public holi­
the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at                          day, the average price must be fixed on the follow­
Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article                   ing working day;
4 ( 1 ) thereof;
                                                                         Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
Whereas     Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70                      information at present available to the Commission
provides     that an average producer price must be                      that the average price should be fixed as shown in
fixed for    each type of wine for which a guide price                   the Annex to this Regulation ;
is fixed;    whereas this average price must be fixed
for each     marketing centre for the type of wine in
question on the basis of all the facts available ;
Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
determined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 1020/70 (4) of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations
and fixing average prices for table wines, as last                                               Article 1
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 765/72 (5 );
                                                                         The average prices refesred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of
Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No                                Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 are hereby fixed as
1020/70 provides that the average price must be                          shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
fixed on the basis of the average of the quotations
notified, particular account being taken of the ex­
tent to which these quotations are representative,                                               Article 2
the comments of the Member States, and the alcoho­
lic strength and quality of table wines which have                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 April
been the subject of transactions;                                         1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 10 April 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI
 (*)  OJ  No   L 99, 5. 5 . 1970, p. 1 .
 ( 2) OJ  No   L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 (s)  OJ  No   L  73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.
 (4 ) OJ  No   L  118 , 1 . 6. 1970, p. 16.
 (•)  OJ  No   L  89, 15 . 4. 1972 , p . 31 .
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                                                                         ANNEX
                                     Average prices for table wines at the various marketing centres
                                                             u . a . per                                          u.a . per
                         Type                               degree/hi                                Type         degree/hi
 RI                                                                             A I
 Béziers                                                      1.692
                                                                                Bordeaux                            No
 Montpellier                                                  1.678                                              quotation
 Narbonne                                                     1.721             Nantes                             1.998
 Nîmes                                                        1.667             Bari                               2.200
Perpignan                                                     1.685             Cagliari                           2.160
Asti                                                         2.213              Chieti                              No
Firenze                                                      2.256                                              quotation
 Lecce                                                       2.192
                                                                                Ravenna (Lugo, Faenza)             2.240
                                                             2.208
                                                                                Trapani (Alcamo)                   1.920
Pescara
                                                                                Treviso                             No
Reggio Emilia                                                   No
                                                         quotation
                                                                                                                quotation
Treviso                                                        No
                                                         quotation
Verona (for local wines)                                     2.320                                                 u.a./hl
                                                                               All
R II                                                                            Rheinpfalz (Oberhaardt)             No
Bari                                                         2.320                                              quotation
Barletta                                                       No               Rheinhessen (Hügelland)             No
                                                        quotation (*)                                           quotation
Cagliari                                                       No               The wine-growing region of the      No
                                                         quotation              Luxembourg Moselle             quotation (*)
Lecce                                                          No
                                                          quotation
Taranto                                                       No
                                                         quotation
                                                                               A III
                                                             u.a. /hl          Mosel                                No
R III
                                                                                                                quotation
Rheinpfalz                                                    No               Rheingau                             No
                                                         quotation                                              quotation
Rheinhessen (Hügelland)                                       No               The wine-growing region of the       No
                                                         quotation             Luxembourg Moselle              quotation (*)
(') Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70.