31972R2684

Official Journal of the European Communities 63

No L 289/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 27.12.72

REGULATION (EEC) No 2684/72 OF THE COUNCIL of 12 December 1972

fixing the activating price for wine for the period 16 December 1972 to 15 December 1973

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­ the market situation is such as to justify a more TIES , marked increase for wines of type R II;

Whereas for the period 16 December 1972 to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 15 December 1973 guide prices were fixed by European Economic Community; Regulation (EEC) No 804/723; whereas pur­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) suant to Article 3 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/701 of 28 April 1970 laying down No 816/70 the activating prices shall be fixed additional provisions for the common organis­ at the same stage and shall be valid during the ation of the marke . in wine, as last amended by same period as the guide price; whereas the Regulation (EEC) No 1651/722 and in particular types of table wines to which these prices shall Article 3 ( 1) thereof; apply were determined by Regulation (EEC No 945/704; Having regard to the proposal from the Com­ mission ;

Whereas an activating price should be fixed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : annually for each type of table wine for which a guide price is fixed, with account being taken of the elements set out in Article 3 (2) of Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 816/70;

Whereas the quality of the harvest may generally For the period 16 December 1972 to 15 Decem­ be considered to average; ber 1973 , the activating price shall be: 1 . 1-35 u.a . per degree/hi for table wines Whereas, since the end of the preceding wine Type R I, season, a general strengthening of the rates has been apparent; whereas for several types of 2 . 1-31 u.a . per degree/hi for table wines wine this has already resulted in the ending of Type R II , private storage contracts ; 3 . 21-6 u.a . per hi for tables wines Type R III , Whereas provisional analysis of the situation 4 . 1-31 u.a . per degree/hi for table wines indicates that, by comparison with the previous Type A I , wine season the stocks available from that year are inferior to those available from the 5 . 28-1 u.a . per hi for table wines Type A II, preceding wine season ; 6 . 33*1 u.a. per hi for table wines Type A III . Whereas the level of the activating prices should take account of the aforementioned characteris­ Article 2 tics; whereas it is therefore appropriate for the period 16 December 1972 to 16 December 1973 to increase the activating price above that This Regulation shall enter into force on applied in the preceding wine season; whereas 16 December 1972 .

1 OJ No L 99, 5.5.1970, p. 1 . 3 OJ No L 94, 21.4.1972, p. 16. 2 OJ No L 174, 1.8.1972, p. 52. 4 OJ No L 114, 27.5.1970, p. 1 .

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 12 December 1972. For the Council The President

S. L. MANSHOLT