31973R3204

No L 327/8 28 . 11 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3204/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 27 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 8 1 6/70 ( x ) 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) ;

Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 The average prices referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regu­ 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 Regulatioft . 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 28 tions ; November 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 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 . (•>) 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 I A I

Béziers 1-478 Bordeaux 1-518

1-613 Nantes No Montpellier quotation Narbonne 1-579 Bari No 1-563 Nîmes quotation 1-563 Perpignan No Cagliari 2-115 quotation Asti Firenze 2-077 Chieti No quotation Lecce No quotation No Ravenna ( Lugo, Faenza ) quotation Pescara No quotation 1-462 Trapani ( Alcamo) No Treviso 1-885 Reggio Emilia quotation

Treviso 1-885

1-962 Verona ( for local wines)

u.a . /hi

A II

Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) No quotation (!) R II No Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) Bari No quotation (*) quotation No The wine-growing region of the Barletta No quotation (*) Luxembourg Moselle quotation

No Cagliari quotation Lecce No quotation

No Taranto quotation A III

u.a . /hi Mosel No R III quotation (*) Rheingau No Rheinpfalz 19-13 quotation (*) Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) 19-13 No The wine-growing region of the Luxembourg Moselle quotation (*) i (') Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 .