31973R3140

No L 320/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 11 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 3140 /73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 20 November 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 related thereto are specified in Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1020/70 ; whereas, where this information is not avail­ Economic Community ; able for any marketing centre, the average price for the preceding week must be maintained ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 ( ! ) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional Whereas the average price for the type of wine in provisions for the common organization of the market question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as in wine as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No appropriate ; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public 2592/73 (2), and in particular Article 4(1 ) thereof ; holiday, the average price must be fixed on the Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 following working day ; provides that an average producer price must be fixed Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed ; information at present available to the Commission whereas this average price must be fixed for each that the average price should be fixed as shown in the marketing centre for the type of wine in question on Annex to this Regulation ; the basis of all the facts available ;

Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are determined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 Regu­ Whereas Article 10 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1020/70 lation (EEC) No 816/70 are hereby fixed as shown in provides that the average price must be fixed on the the Annex to this Regulation. basis of the average of the quotations notified, parti­ cular account being taken of the extent to which these quotations are representative, the comments of the Article 2 Member States, and the alcoholic strength and quality of table wines which have been the subject of transac­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 tions ; November 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 20 November 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 269, 26. 9 . 1973, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 118 , 1 . 6. 1970, p. 16. (4) OJ No L 89, 15. 4. 1972, p. 31 .

21 . 11 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 320/9

ANNEX

Average prices for table wines at the various marketing centres

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

R I A I

Beziers 1·568 Bordeaux 1·514 Montpellier 1·563 Nantes No quotation (*) Narbonne No quotation Bari 1·631 Nîmes 1·588 Cagliari No quotation (1) Perpignan 1·579 Chieti No Asti No quotation quotation Ravenna ( Lugo, Faenza) No Firenze 2·123 quotation Lecce No Trapani (Alcamo ) No quotation quotation Pescara No Treviso 1·885 quotation No Reggio Emilia quotation Treviso 1·885 u.a . /hi Verona ( for local wines) 1·962 A II

Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) 20·14 R II 21·86 Rheinhessen ( Hügelland) The wine-growing region of the No Bari No Luxembourg Moselle quotation ( x) quotation Barletta No quotation Cagliari No quotation Lecce No quotation Taranto No quotation A III

u.a . /hi Mosel No R III quotation (*) Rheingau No Rheinpfalz 19·54 quotation (*) Rheinhessen ( Hügelland) 20·49 The wine-growing region of the No Luxembourg Moselle quotation (*)

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