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12.1.68 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 9/ 17

REGULATION (EEC) No 39/68 OF THE COMMISSION

of 11 January 1968

amending Regulation No 26/64/EEC as regards keeping the viticultural land register up to date

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ or which have yet to be made in pursuance of other MUNITIES , provisions should be used for keeping the register up to date and, as regards stock nurseries and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ cutting nurseries, all relevant information which can pean Economic Community ; should be used for that purpose by the Member States ; Having regard to Regulation No 241 on the pro­ Whereas, in order to follow the development of vine gressive establishment of a common organisation of cultivation under glass, complete and systematic the market in wine, and in particular Article 5 information communicated every two years by Mem­ thereof; ber States is preferable to sample surveys ; whereas it is appropriate, therefore, to amend Article 4 of Having regard to Commission Regulation No 143 2 Regulation No 26/64/EEC accordingly ; laying down initial provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register, and in particular Article 7 thereof ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu­ lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Whereas the preparations for the establishment of Management Committee for Wine; the viticultural land register have been completed or nearly so ; whereas it is therefore necessary to HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : draw up measures for keeping it up to date ; Article 1 Whereas, in order to understand the situation and development of the Community market in wine, the The following provisions shall be substituted or the development of the area under vines and the selection provisions of Article 3 of Regulation No 26/64/EEC : of vine varieties employed in each of the adminis­ trative units of the Member States need to be ' 1 . The viticultural land register shall be completely followed continuously and in detail as regards the type revised every ten years, beginning in 1977. of cultivation, the nature of produce and the position of each vineyard plot; In the meantime the register shall be kept up to date each year by declarations on the planting and grubbing of vines effected during the period referred Whereas, by reason of the foregoing, it is preferable to in paragraph 2. that a system of yearly declarations on the planting and grubbing of vines should replace the statistical 2. The declarations shall be made in writing by sample surveys provided for in Article 3 of Com­ the natural and legal persons referred to in Article mission Regulation No 26/64/EEC3 of 28 February 1 of Regulation No 143 and shall be sent before 1964 laying down additional provisions for the 15 June to the authorities appointed in accordance preparation of the viticultural land register; with national provisions. All planting or grubbing of vineyard plots or of parts thereof effected during Whereas, for the sake of technical simplicity, the the period from 1 June of the preceding year to official declarations which are already in existence 31 May of the year during which the declaration is made shall be shown separately in the declarations .

1 OJ No 30 , 20.4.1962 , p. 989/62. 2 OJ No 127, 1.12.1962 , p. 2789/62. However, the first declaration shall cover the period 3 OJ No 48 , 19.3.1964, p. 753/64. from the date of the establishment of the register

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to 31 May of the year in which that first declaration — the nature of produce and is made . — age groups . 3 . The declarations shall include the following 7. Not later than 30 November of each year, particulars : Member states shall notify the Commission, in — the name and address of the vine grower, triplicate, of the results of the updating of their records in accordance with paragraph 6 above.' — the name and address of the owner(s ) of the vineyard plot or of the part thereof planted or Article 2 grubbed, — particulars required to identify the vineyard plot The following Article shall be added to Regulation or the part thereof, No 26/64/EEC : — the area of the vineyard plot or the part thereof 'Article 3 (b) planted or grubbed, — the position, 1 . For the purposes applying this Regulation, the — the nature of produce, definitions of "nature of produce", "type of culti­ — the type of cultivation, vation" and "vineyard plot" shall be those given in Article 3 of Regulation No 143 . — the selection of vine varieties, — the age of grubbed vine-stocks. 2. For the purposes of this Regulation : 4. Until the entry into force of Community pro­ — "planting" means the planting of vine plants or parts of vine plants over a uniform surface, with visions providing for declarations on the production and marketing of vegetative propagation material the intention of creating or renewing a vineyard for vines, Member States shall, in order to keep the plot or part of a vineyard plot; viticultural land register up to date, make use of all — "grubbing" means the complete removal of all relevant information about stock nurseries and cutting vine-stocks from a vineyard plot or from part nurseries . of a vineyard plot.'

5 . Member States may exempt the natural and legal Article 3 persons referred to in Article 1 of Regulation No 143 1 . The words ' in 1977 ' shall be substituted for the from making the declarations provided for in para­ graph 1 , or from furnishing a part of the information words 'in 1976' appearing in the first indent of the mentioned in paragraph 3 , if they are in possession third subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 26/ 64/EEC . of such information through other declarations made in accordance with official provisions. 2. The words 'biennial surveys' shall be substituted 6 . Member States shall keep their viticultural land for the words 'biennial statistical sample surveys' registers up to date on the basis of the declarations appearing in the second indent of the third subpara­ and information mentioned in paragraph 1 , 4 and 5 graph of Article 4 of Regulation No '26/64/EEC. as regards ; 3 . The words 'in accordance with the provisions of ( a) the total area under vines, subdivided according Articles 2 to 4' shall be substituted for the words to : 'in accordance with the provisions of Articles 2 and — the type of cultivation, 4' appearing in Article 5 of Regulation No 26/64/ EEC . — the nature of produce and — the position, and Article 4

(b) the area covered by each of the vine varieties, Article 4 of Regulation No 26/64/EEC is hereby subdivided according to : repealed .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 11 January 1968 . For the Commission The President J. REY