Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1327/89 of 16 May 1989 authorizing Spain not to apply in certain areas the measures provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 as regards the granting of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas, for the 1989/90 to 1995/96 wine years

COMMISSION  REGULATION (EEC) No 1327/89
of 16 May 1989
authorizing Spain not to apply in certain areas the measures provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 as regards the granting of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas, for the 1989/90 to 1995/96 wine years
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 of 24 May 1988 on the granting, for the 1988/89 to 1995/96 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas (1), and in particular Article 12 (1) thereof,
Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2729/89 of 31 August 1988 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 on the granting, for the 1988/89 to 1995/96 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums of wine-growing areas (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 678/89 of 16 March 1989 (3), Spain lodged before 1 April 1989 an application with supporting documents for exclusion from the scope of the measures provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 from the 1989/90 wine year;
Whereas wine-growing areas recognized as suitable for the production of quality wines psr, located in certain areas with special constraints are covered by this Regulation; whereas those areas are determined on the basis of four factors; whereas the following factors in combination are involved:
- qualification for a designation of origin, to avoid calling into question quality policies;
- an annual average rainfall less than or equal to 400 mm,
- very limited possibilities of alternative crops, shown by the possibilities of crop rotation, irrigation and classes of yield, obtained on the basis of land tenure, production and agro-climatic study data;
those technical indices enable geographical areas with average to high agronomic constraints to be determined;
- existence of a risk of depopulation, through the use of population criteria - percentage of working farming population in comparison to total working population, population density and annual rate of fall - used for the determination of less-favoured areas,
whereas the combination of those criteria gives a list of communes;
Whereas the criteria selected to determine that list correspond to those defined in Article 12 (1) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88; whereas the wine-growing potential of the areas recognized as suitable for the production of quality wine psr in those communes as a whole is less than 10 % of the national wine-growing potential;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,