CELEX: 51984PC0539
Language: en
Date: 1984-09-28
Title: AMENDMENT OF THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 337/79 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN WINE ( COM ( 84 ) 515 FINAL OF 12.9.1984 )

C 278/4                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              18.10. 84
                                                              II
                                                      (Preparatory Acts)
                                                COMMISSION
                Amendment of the proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC)
                            No 337/79 on the common organization of the market in wine (')
                                                     COM(84) 539 final
                (Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragaph of Article 149
                                         of the EEC Treaty on 28 September 1984)
                                                       (84/C 278/04)
 1. The following are added to the recitals:                      2. Article 1 is hereby supplemented as follows:
    Whereas experience has shown that when one
    wine year's table wine production exceeds a                      7. Article 41 is replaced by the following:
    certain volume no balance can be achieved on the
    table wine market; whereas current data indicates                    Article 41
    that the said limit, known as the guarantee
    threshold, may be set around 100 million
    hectolitres;                                                         1.    There shall be a guarantee threshold for
                                                                        table wines.
    Whereas the situation which has obtained on the
    table wine market for several wine years makes it                   For the 1984/85, 1985/86 and 1986/87 wine
    necessary to adopt measures to achieve more direct                  years the threshold shall be 100 million
    control over production; whereas it also appears                    hectolitres.
    that the absorption of surpluses depends mainly on
    the implementation of compulsory distillation;
    whereas it is therefore necessary to provide for this               The Council, acting by a qualified majority on
    measure to be triggered automatically where it is                   a proposal from the Commission, shall fix the
    found, for the wine year in question, that                          threshold for subsequent wine years.
    production exceeds the guarantee threshold;
                                                                        2.     Where, in respect of a wine year, the data
    Whereas wine production should not be                               in the forward estimate shows:
    encouraged in the absence of commercial outlets;
    whereas it therefore appears advisable to reduce                    — that table wine production         exceeds  the
    the buying-in price of wine delivered for                               guarantee threshold, or
    compulsory distillation, as its present level seems                 — that the availabilities recorded at the
    sufficiently attractive if not to encourage the                         beginning of the wine year exceed by more
    creation of new vineyards at least to enable old                        than five months the normal utilization for
    vineyards to survive in the absence of any sales                        that year,
    possibilities;                                                      compulsory distillation of table wine shall be
                                                                        decided on.
    Whereas it is only fair to apply severe measures to
    producers who obtain high yields, which are
    generally detrimental to product quality, and are                   In calculating availabilities at the beginning of
    thus responsible for a large proportion of the                      the wine year, as referred to in the second
    surpluses; whereas, therefore, in addition to an                    indent of the first subparagraph, account shall
    increase in the rate of liability to the obligation to              be taken of the quantities to be distilled under
    distil by reference to individual yields, there should              Articles 11 and 12a.
    be a reduction in the buying-in price for part of
    the quantities to be delivered, in proportion to the                However, such distillation shall not be decided
    said yields,                                                        on in wine years when the administrative
                                                                        burden it would entail would be dispro-
                                                                        portionate to the results expected in view of the
(') OJ No C 259, 27. 9. 1984, p. 5.                                     total quantity to be distilled.
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     3.      The total quantity to be distilled must be                     obtained from distillation has an alcoholic
     such as to leave foreseeable end-of-year stocks                        strength of at least 52 % vol,
     at a level corresponding to five months' normal                   — or deliver the product obtained from
     utilization calculated for the wine year in                            distillation to the intervention agency,
     question.                                                              provided that it has an alcoholic strength of
                                                                            at least 92 % vol.
     In determining the total quantity to be distilled,
     account shall be taken of the quantities subject                  However,
     to preventive distillation as referred to in Article
      11.                                                              — the Member States may stipulate that their
                                                                            intervention agencies will not buy in the
     Subject to the second               subparagraph of                    product referred to in the second indent of
     paragraph 7, the quantity          to be distilled in                  the first subparagraph,
     accordance with paragraph           2 shall, for each             — if table wine has been processed into wine
     producer, be equal to a           percentage of his                    fortified for distillation before delivery for
     production of table wine.                                              distillation, the aid referred to in the first
                                                                            indent of the first subparagraph shall be
     This percentage:                                                       paid to the manufacturer of the fortified
     — shall be fixed not later than 31 January                             wine and the product of the distillation may
          following the decision to carry out                               not be delivered to the intervention agency.
          distillation,
                                                                       A buying-in price shall be fixed for neutral
     — shall be varied, in order to curb the increase
                                                                       spirits with characteristics to be determined.
          in Community production, according to the
          yield per hectare of each producer in                        The buying-in price of the other products of
          relation to the average yield obtained by                    distillation which can be taken over by the
          Community table wine producers. The                          intervention agency shall be fixed on the basis
          percentage may also be varied according to                   of the buying-in price referred to in the third
          the type of table wine and the normal yield                  subparagraph but varied to take account, in
          for the various wine-growing zones or parts                  particular, of costs necessarily entailed in
          of zones, where the breakdown of the                         processing the relevant product into neutral
          harvest by type and zone makes this                          spirits.
          necessary.
                                                                       6.     The Council, acting by a qualified
     The quantity of table wine to be delivered for
                                                                       majority on a proposal from the Commission,
     distillation by each producer shall be equal to
                                                                        shall adopt general rules for the application of
     that determined in accordance with the
                                                                       this Article.
     preceding subparagraph minus the quantity of
     table wine or wine suitable for yielding table                    These rules shall include:
     wine delivered for distillation as referred to in
                                                                       — the conditions under which distillation is to
     Article 11.
                                                                            be carried out,
      4.     The buying-in price for the table wines to                — the criteria for determining the amount of
     be delivered for compulsory distillation, in                           aid which will enable the products obtained
      excess of the quantities delivered for distillation                   to be disposed of,
      as referred to in Article 11, shall be 50 % of the               — the criteria for fixing the buying-in prices of
      guide price for each type of table wine.                              the products of distillation which can be
                                                                            taken over by the intervention agencies.
      However, for wines from vineyards whose yield
      exceeds 140 hl/ha, the buying-in price shall be                   7.    Decisions to carry out the distillation
      reduced to 33 % of the guide price in respect of                  referred to in paragraph 2, the quantity and the
      a quantity to be determined.                                      percentages referred to in paragraph 3, the
                                                                        quantity and the threshold referred to in the
      The buying-in prices shall also apply to wines in
                                                                        second subparagraph of paragraph 4, the
      a close economic relationship with each of the
                                                                        amount of the aid and the prices referred to in
      types of table wine. The price paid by the
                                                                        paragraph 5 and detailed rules for the
      distiller may not be lower than the buying-in
                                                                        application of this Article shall be adopted in
      price.
                                                                        accordance with the procedure laid down in
                                                                        Article 67.
      5.     Under the distillation operation referred
      to in this Article, the distiller may:                            Measures involving partial or total exemption
      — either receive aid in respect of the product                    from the obligation referred to in paragraph 3
           to be distilled, provided that the product                   for producers who have, during the relevant
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   wine year, obtained a quantity of wine not                       procedure, in particular so as to alleviate the
   exceeding a quantity to be determined shall be                    administrative    burden      arising from    the
    adopted in accordance with the same                              application of this Article.'
          Proposal for a Council Decision determining the general guidelines for 1985 concerning
                         financial and technical aid to non-associated developing countries
                                                  COM(84) 526 final
                          (Submitted to the Council by the Commission on 4 October 1984)
                                                    (84/C 278/05)
          THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
          Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
          Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 442/81 of 17 February 1981 on
          financial and technical aid to non-associated developing countries (*), and in particular
          Article 9 (2) thereof,
          Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
          Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
          Whereas the general guidelines for the administration of financial and technical aid by
          the Commission to non-associated developing countries to be followed in 1985 should be
          determined,
          HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                                        Article 1
          The 1984 guidelines are hereby renewed for 1985.
          0) O J N o L 4 8 , 21.2. 1981, p. 8.
          Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2925/78 as regards
          the period of suspension of application of the price condition to which imports into the
                   Community of certain types of citrus fruit originating in Spain are subject
                                                  COM(84) 528 final
                          (Submitted to the Council by the Commission on 5 October 1984)
                                                    (84/C 278/06)
          THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
          Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
          particular Article 43 thereof,
          Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,