CELEX: 31962R0143
Language: en
Date: 1962-11-23 00:00:00
Title: EEC: Regulation No 143 of the Commission laying down initial provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    293
1.12.62                     OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                         2789/62
                                  REGULATION No 143 OF THE COMMISSION
                   laying down initial provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                        Whereas the methods of keeping the viticultural land
COMMUNITY,                                                     register up to date will need to be defined later,
                                                               having particular regard to the methods adopted for
                                                               drawing up the register in the Member States ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 24 on the
progressive establishment of a common organisation                                      Article 1
of the market in wine, and in particular Article 5
thereof;                                                       For the purposes of the preparation of the viticultural
                                                               land register provided for in Article 1 of Council
Having regard to the Opinion of the Management                 Regulation No 24 on the progressive establishment of
Committee for Wine;                                            a common organisation of the market in wine, any
                                                               natural or legal person who cultivates vines in the
                                                                open air or causes them to be so cultivated on his
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24                  behalf is hereby required to submit to the authority
provides that Member States shall prepare a                    appointed by Member States a signed declaration
viticultural land register and lays down the minimum            regarding his vineyard.
information to be included therein;
                                                               However no natural or legal person who cultivates or
Whereas, in view of the minor importance to the                 causes to be cultivated on his behalf, less than 10 ares
wine-growing economy of plantations with an area                of vines in the open air, of which no part of the
under vines of less than 10 ares, these need not be             output in grapes, must or wine is sold directly or
subject to the general census, provided that no part           indirectly, shall be required to submit a declaration.
of their output is sold;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas, in the present state of development of the
common wine policy, it is not essential to conduct a            The declaration provided in Article 1 shall include
census of vine plantations under glass, bearing in              the following information :
mind their negligible contribution to Community
output of wine; whereas it is nevertheless useful to           — the name and address of the vine grower and the
 have, in respect of such plantations, the information              type of management;
 listed in Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24;               — the name and address of the landowner/s ;
Whereas, on the other hand, in order to obtain                  — the total area of the plantation ;
 adequate knowledge of wine-growing potential, the              — the total area under vines subdivided according
 output of which affects the market, and to be in                   to :
 a position to implement on site any necessary
 measures, it is important to determine for each vine               ( a) nature of produce,
 plantation the number of vineyard plots which it                   (b)  type of cultivation,
 comprises and details enabling them to be identified ;
                                                                    (c)  age of the vine-stocks,
                                                                    (d)  year in which the different vine varieties were
 Whereas it is important to define the nature and                        planted;
 scope of the information listed in Article 1 of Council
 Regulation No 24;                                              — number of vine plants per are;
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 — number of vineyard plots in the plantation, the              responsible for centralising the declarations and for
     area of each and details enabling them to be               preparing a summary at national level of the
     identified.                                                information required by Article 2.
                                                                As regards vines grown under glass, Member States
                         Article 3                              shall, by any appropriate method, collect the
                                                                information mentioned in Article         1  of Council
The terms used in the preceding Article shall mean              Regulation No 24.
 the following :
 — nature of produce :                                          2. For statistical purposes areas under mixed
                                                                cultivation shall be converted into areas under pure
     (a) wine grapes,                                           cultivation by means of the ratio between the average
                                                                yields per hectare of the two types of cultivation
     (b) table grapes,
                                                                applied to sufficiently uniform zones.
     (c) produce- from nurseries and root-stock parent
          vines ;
                                                                                         Article 6
— type of cultivation : pure or mixed;
;— vineyard plot : one continuous piece of land                 This Regulation shall not invalidate any measures
     carrying vines, worked by one and the same                 taken by Member States to provide a general
     natural or legal person and constituting a distinct        vineyard census including information additional to
     entity as regards nature of produce and type of            that required by Article 2, obtained, for example,
     cultivation.                                               from wider categories of people than those laid down
                                                                in Article 1 , or from a mor,e detailed declaration of
                                                                the characteristics of the vineyard or plantation.
                         Article 4
                                                                                        Article 7
As regards the • classification of vineyard areas
according to the age of vine-stocks the exact
indication of age may, in the case of vines more than           Procedures for communicating to the Commission
                                                                the information obtained and the form in which it is
three years old, be replaced by mentioning one of the
following age groups :                                          to be communicated, together with measures for
                                                                keeping such information up to date, shall be
                       3 to 6 years,                          ' adopted in accordance with the procedure provided
                                                                for in Article 7 of Council Regulation No 24, on the.
                      6 to 10 years,
                                                                basis of the methods chosen by Member States for
                     10 to 20 years,                            drawing up the viticultural land register.
                     20 to 30 years,
                                                                                        Article 8
                      over 30 years.
                                                                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
The same shall apply to the year , in which vine                directly applicable in all Member States.
varieties are planted.
                                                                Done at Brussels , 23 November 1962.
                         Article 5
                                                                                                   For the Commission
1 . Member States shall take all necessary measures
                                                                                                      The President
to ensure that the declarations provided for in Article
1 are submitted and are correct. They shall be                                                       W. HALLSTEIN