CELEX: 31978R0677
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 677/78 of 5 April 1978 enabling short-term private storage contracts to be concluded for table wines closely related economically to the A I type of table wine

6 . 4 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 92/ 11
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 677/78
                                                          of 5 April 1978
                enabling short-term private storage contracts to be concluded for table wines
                              closely related economically to the A I type of table wine
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       not covered by the said intervention measures, and
COMMUNITIES,                                                        consequently may prevent the measures taken from
                                                                     having the effect desired ; whereas, therefore, storage
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              contracts should be allowed to be concluded for such
 Economic Community,                                                table wines ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
sions for the common organization of the market in                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                     ment Committee for Wine ,
wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2560 /77 (2 ), and in particular the first subparagraph of           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 5 (7) thereof,
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (2)                                            Article 1
thereof provides that, if the state of the market so
requires, a decision may be taken to allow short-term                1.    The power to conclude short-term private
storage contracts to be concluded in respect of table               storage contracts for the A I type of table wine
wines other than those of the type for which this possi­            granted by Regulation (EEC) No 610/78 is hereby
bility exists they may be concluded, where such table               extended to white table wines that are closely related
wines are closely related economically to that type of              economically to the A I type of table wine.
table wine ;
                                                                    2.     White   table wines   with an   actual  alcoholic
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 610/78 of
29 March 1 978 (3) enabled short-term private storage               strength of not more than 14°, and which do not fall
contracts to be concluded for the A I type of table                 within type A II and type A III shall be considered to
wine ;                                                              be closely related economically to the A I type of
                                                                    table wine .
Whereas table wine prices on the Community market
are at present falling ; whereas this trend has been                3 . The power referred to in paragraph 1 shall
marked by the fact that intervention measures have                  continue for as long as the same power exists under
had to be brought into effect for the A I type of table             Regulation ( EEC) No 610/78 for the A I type of table
wine ; whereas, however, large quantities of white table            wine .
wines that are closely related economically to the A I
                                                                                            Article 2
type of table wine are on the market and are subject
to the general decline in prices ;
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
Whereas these white table wines that are closely                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
related economically to the A I type of table wine are               the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 5 April 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 303 , 28 . II . 1977, p. 1 .
 3 ) OJ No L 83 , 30 . 3 . 1978 , p. 21 .