31973R0043

No L 9/ 8 10 . 1 . 73 Official Journal of due European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 43/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 9 January 1973

fixing the average producer prices for wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas arrangements for the notification by the COMMUNITIES, Member States of quotations and information re­ lated thereto are specified in Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ 1020/70; whereas, where this information is not pean Economic Community; available for any marketing centre, the average price for the preceding week must be maintained; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 (1) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional Whereas the average price for the type of wine in provisions for the common organisation of the mar­ question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as. ket in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) appropriate; whereas this price must be fixed every No 2680/72 (2), and in particular Article 4 ( 1 ) Tuesday ; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public holi­ thereof; day, the average price must be fixed on the follow­ ing working day; Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that an average producer price must be Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the fixed for each type of wine for which a guide price information at present available to the Commission is fixed; whereas this average price must be fixed that the average price should be fixed as shown in for each marketing centre for the type of wine, in the Annex to this Regulation ; question on the basis of all the facts available ;

Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : determined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 (3) of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations and fixing average prices for table wines, as last Article 1 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 765/72 (4); The average prices referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 - are . hereby fixed as 1020/70 provides that the average price must be shown in the Annex to this Regulation. fixed on the basis of the average of the quotations notified, particular account being taken of the ex­ tent to which these quotations are representative, Article 2 the comments of the Member States, and the alcoho­ lic strength and quality of table wines which have This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 January been the subject of transactions ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 9 January 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois Xavier ORTOLI

(^ OJ No L 99, 5. 5 . 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 289, 27. 12 . 1972, p . 1 . (3) OJ No L 118 , 1 . 6. 1970, p. 16 . (4) OJ No L 89, 15 . 4. 1972, p. 31 .

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ANNEX

Average prices for table wines at the various marketing centres

u.a. . per u.a. . per Type degree/hi Type degree/hi

R I A I Béziers 1.566 Bordeaux 1.970 Montpellier 1.559 Nantes No Narbonne 1.471 quotation i 1 ) Nîmes No Bari No quotation quotation Perpignan 1.584 Cagliari 1.760 Asti 1.960 Chieti 1.472 Firenze No Ravenna (Lugo, Faenza) 1.600 quotation Trapani (Alcamo) 1.600 Lecce No Treviso 1.840 quotation Pescara 1.888 Reggio Emilia No quotation u.a./hl Treviso 1.800 A II Verona (for local wines) No quotation Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) No quotation R II Rheinhessen (Hügelland) No quotation Bari No quotation The wine-growing region of the Barletta Luxembourg Moselle No No quotation (*) quotation Cagliari No quotation Lecce No A III quotation Mosel No Taranto No quotation quotation Rheingau No u.a./hl R III quotation The wine-growing region of the Rheinpfalz No Luxembourg Moselle No quotation quotation (*) Rheinhessen (Hügelland) No quotation (*) Quotations not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (ECC) No 1020/70.