31972R0176

44 Official Journal of the European Communities

No L 23/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 27 . 1 . 72

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 176/72 of 26 January 1972

supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 on storage contracts for table wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN derogation should therefore be confined to the 1971/ COMMUNITIES, 72 wine-growing year;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of European Economic Community, the Management Committee for Wine,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provisions for the common organization of the Article 1 market in wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2722/71 (2), and in particular Article 6 (4) The following shall be substituted for the second thereof, subparagraph of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 : Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/ 70 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 91 / 'Notwithstanding the previous subparagraph, the 72 (4), stipulates that a storage contract may not be period of validity of a storage contract for which concluded for a period beginning before the date of written application is received by the competent the conclusion of the contract ; agency between 1 December 1971 and 31 August 1972 shall commence on the day on which the application is received . Whereas the way in which the intervention agencies operate in one producer Member State does not yet However, the period of validity of storage permit storage contracts to be concluded promptly contracts for which written application is received after presentation of the application; whereas, to by the competent agency after 29 December 1971 mitigate the consequences of this situation for shall commence not more than 30 days before producers in that Member State, provision should be the date of the conclusion of the contract.' made for a measure of retroactivity in respect of contracts for which - applications are received after Article 2 30 November 1971 ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third Whereas intervention agencies should however be in day following its publication in the Official Journal a position to operate effectively ; whereas this of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 26 January 1972 . For the Commission The President Franco M. MALFATTI

C) OJ No L 99, 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 282, 23 . 12. 1971 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 160, 22. 7. 1970, p. 16. (4) OJ No L 11 , 14. 1 . 1972, p . 29.