31973R1143

No L 117/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 5 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1143/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 2 May 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 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No for the preceding week must be maintained; 816/70 (*) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provisions for the common organization of the mar­ Whereas the average price for the type of wine in ket in wine as last amended by the Act (2) annexed question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of new Member appropriate ; whereas this price must be fixed every States to the European Economic Community and Tuesday; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public holi­ the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at day, the average price must be fixed on the follow­ Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article ing working day; 4 ( 1 ) thereof; Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 information at present available to the Commission provides that an average producer price must be that the average price should be fixed as shown in fixed for each type of wine for which a guide price the Annex to this Regulation ; is fixed; whereas this average price must be fixed for each marketing centre for the type of wine in 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 (4) 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 (5); 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 3 May been the subject of transactions ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 2 May 1973 . For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 99, 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (») OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . («) OJ No L 118, 1 . 6. 1970, p . 16. (•) 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/hl Type degree/hl

R i A I Béziers 1-944 Montpellier 1-890 Bordeaux 2-288 Narbonne No Nantes 2-049 quotation Bari No Nîmes No quotation quotation No Cagliari Perpignan 1-836 quotation Asti 2-253 Chieti No Firenze 2-240 quotation Ravenna (Lugo, Faenza) No Lecce 2-240 quotation Pescara No Trapani (Alcamo) No quotation quotation Reggio Emilia 1-920 Treviso 2-320 Treviso 2-360 Verona (for local wines) 2-320 u.a./hl All

R II Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) No Bari No quotation quotation Rheinhessen (Hügelland) No Barletta No quotation quotation The wine-growing region of the No No Luxembourg Moselle quotation (*) Cagliari quotation Lecce No quotation Taranto No • A III quotation u. a. /hi Mosel No R III quotation Rheinpfalz No Rheingau No quotation quotation Rheinhessen (Hügelland) No The wine-growing region of the No quotation Luxembourg Moselle quotation (*)

(*) Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70.