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4.11.70 Official Journal of the European^ Communities No L 241 / 17

REGULATION (EEC) No 2232/70 OF THE COMMISSION of 3 November 1970

on private storage aid for table wines which stand in close economic relationship with the R I and A I types of table wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ wines, whose characteristics are close to those of the MUNITIES, R I and A I types, do not qualify for storage aid and consequently compete with the above-mentioned Having regard to the Treaty establishing the types of wine; European Economic Community ; Whereas there is a risk of a further fall in prices if the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No table wines referred to above, which stand in close 816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional economic relationship with the R I and A I types of provisions for the common organisation of the table wine, continue to escape intervention designed market in wine, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No to stabilise prices ; whereas, therefore, provision 1253/70,2 and in particular the second subparagraph should be made whereby those wines may qualify for of Article 5 (7 ) thereof; storage contracts ; Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (3 ) of Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that if the are in accordance with the Opinion of the state of the market so requires a decision may be Management Committee for Wine; taken to grant aid also for table wines of a type other than that for which the average price remains less HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : than the activating price for two consecutive weeks, where such wines stand in close economic Article 1 relationship with the latter type; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC ) No 1580/70® 1 . The private storage aid referred to in Article 6 of 4 August 1970 on private storage aid for table (3 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 shall be wines of types R I, A I and A II established that granted in respect of table wines which are not of private storage aid should be granted for those types types R I, R III, A I, A II and A III but which have an of table wine; whereas the amount of such aids was actual alcoholic strength of not less than 9-5° and fixed in Article 6 (3 ) of Commission Regulation not more than 12-5° . (EEC) No 1437/704 of 20 July 1970 on storage 2. The aid referred to in paragraph 1 shall be contracts for table wine; granted for such length of time as private storage aid Whereas the prices of table wines on the Community is granted under Regulation (EEC) No 1580/70 for markets are at present falling; whereas this trend is the type of table wine which stands in close economic revealed by the fact that at several marketing centres relationship with the table wine in question . the prices for the types of table wine referred to The red or rose table wines referred to in paragraph above have fallen below the activating price since 1 stand in close economic relationship with the R I the beginning of the 1970/1971 wine-growing type of table wine. year; . whereas those prices have not yet risen above the activating prices in spite of the intervention The white table wines referred to in paragraph 1 stand in close economic relationship with the A I measures activated by Regulation (EEC) No 1580/70 ; whereas that situation arises from the fact that table type of table wine.

Article 2 1 OJ No L 99 , 5.5.1970, p . 1 . 2 OJ No L 143 , 1.7.1970 , p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 3 OJ No L 172 , 5.8.1970, p . 38 . day following its publication in the Official Journal 4 OJ No L 160 , 22.7.1970, p . 16. of the European Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 3 November 1970.

For the Commission The President

Franco M. MALFATTI