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No L 118 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 1.6.70

REGULATION (EEC) No 1020/70 OF THE COMMISSION

of 29 May 1970

on recording quotations and fixing average prices for table wines

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ advisable that the relevant information should be MUNITIES, collected in Member States by commissions set up by Member States to watch the development of prices for each marketing centre serving an area of a certain Having regard to the Treaty establishing the size and on which representation will be determined European Economic Community ; by the economic importance of the parties concerned ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the average prices are producer prices; 816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional whereas it is therefore advisable to limit the recording provisions for the common organisation of the of prices to Member States which produce table market in wine, and in particular Articles 4 (3 ), 35 wines and to the prices applied between producers and 37 thereof; and purchasers ; whereas, in order to assess such prices, the information about them should be as precise as possible; Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 laid down that for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed the Commission must fix Whereas the information obtained by the each week, on the basis of all facts available to it, an above-mentioned commissions and forwarded by the average producer price (hereinafter called 'average Member States to the Commission should serve as a price') for each marketing centre for the type of wine basis for calculating the average prices ; whereas, in question ; since such prices are intended to serve as a basis for activating intervention measures and to permit a general conspectus of the development of the market Whereas it is however necessary to determine the in table wines in the Community, they must reflect marketing centres in question ; whereas, as far as the actual situation of the market; whereas, to that France and Italy are concerned, the representative end, the prices must be fixed on the basis of the markets for certain types of wine may be used ; average of tlie quotations recorded, while taking account of the exent to which transactions may be representative and of the assessment to be made of Whereas paragraph 2 of the same Article 4 lays down the trend of the market ; that Member States should supply to the Commission all relevant information for fixing average prices and, in particular, where there are representative markets, Whereas, when information is not available to the the producer prices recorded on those markets for Commission, price levels should be maintained as each type of wine; previously fixed;

Whereas it is necessary to specify the procedure Whereas the setting up of a system of recording according to which quotations are recorded and quotations necessitates, in certain Member States, a average prices are fixed ; preparatory period; whereas, in the absence of information, prices cannot be fixed during that period ; Whereas, in order to achieve a survey which is as uniform as possible throughout the Community, it is Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the 1 OJ No L 99, 5.5.1970, p . 1 . Management Committee for Wine;

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 4

Article 1 The marketing centre of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg shall be the wine-growing region of the Luxembourg Moselle for table wines of the A II and The marketing centres of the Federal Republic of A III types . Germany shall be :

Article 5 (a) for table wines of the R III type : Rheinpfalz, Rheinhessen (Hiigelland); A commission for the recording of quotations (hereinafter called 'commission') shall be set up by the Member States, where it. does not exist already, ( b ) for table wines of the A II type : for each of the marketing centres, mentioned in Rheinpfalz (Oberhaardt), Rheinhessen (Hügel­ Articles 1 to 4 and corresponding to an area under land); vindes larger than 2000 hectares.

(c) for table wines of the A III type : Article 6 Mosel, Rheingau. When setting up a commission, Member States shall ensure that all the parties concerned are represented Article 2 proportionally to their importance in the marketing centre for which it is set up . 1 . The marketing centres of the French Republic shall be : Article 7 ( a) for table wines of the R I type : 1 . The commissions shall collect at least once a Béziers, Montpellier, Narbonne, Nîmes, Per­ week information relating to the transactions which pignan ; took place between producers and purchasers during the days following their previous meeting. (b) for table wines of the A I type : 2. The commissions shall forward the information Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes . referred to in paragraph 1 to the competent agency at the end of each meeting. \ 2. The marketing centres referred to in paragraph 1 shall be the representative markets referred to in Article 8 Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 .

1 . Member States shall, without delay, forward to Article 3 the Commission by telex the information received from each commission, together, where appropriate, 1 . The marketing centres of the Italian Republic with their comments, in particular in respect of the shall be : trend of quotations .

Where there is no commission for a marketing centre, (a) for table wines of the R I type : the information, provided for in paragraph 2 shall be Asti, Lecce, Pescara, Reggio Emilia, Treviso , collected by the Member State concerned . Verona (for local wines ); 2. The information shall relate to : (b) for table wines of the R II type : ( a) prices ; Bàri, Barletta, Cagliari, Lecce, Taranto ; ( b ) the colour or, where appropriate, the type of wine under consideration ; ( c) for table wines of the A I type : ( c) the alcoholic strength, in the case of table wines Cagliari, Lecce, Ravenna (Lugo, Faenza), Roma, quoted per degree/hi ; Trapani (Alcamo ), Treviso . ( d ) the vine variety, in the case of table wines of the R III, A II and A III types ; 2 . The marketing centres referred to in paragraph 1 shall be the representative markets referred to in (e) the quantity covered by the transactions for the Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 . period under consideration .

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Article 9 the alcoholic strength and the quality of table wines which have been the subject of the transactions. 1 . Every Tuesday, and for the first time on 16 June 1970 , the Commission shall fix the average price, per 2 . Where the Commission has no information degree/hi or per hi, as appropriate, for the type of regarding any one marketing centre, it shall maintain wine in question . the average price for the preceding week .

2. Where the Tuesday is a public holiday, the Article 11 average price referred to in paragraph 1 shall be fixed on the following working day. Member States shall notify the Commission without delay of the measures taken to implement this Article 10 Regulation .

1 . The Commission shall fix the average price Article 12 referred to in Article 9 ( 1 ) on the basis of the average of the quotations notified, taking account in particular of the extent to which they are This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June representative, the comments of the Member States, 1970 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 May 1970 .

For the Commission

The President

Jean REY