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13 . 12 . 73 No L 342/ 1 Official Journal of the European Communities

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

REGULATION (EEC) No 3339/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 11 December 1973 fixing the activating prices for table wines for the period from 16 December 1973 to 15 December 1974

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN previous wine year ; whereas, because of the market COMMUNITIES, situation, a larger increase is justified for wines of types R I and R II ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the guide prices for the period from 16 December 1973 to 15 December 1974 were fixed by Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Regulation (EEC) No 1352/73 (3) ; whereas Article 816/70 (') of 28 April 1970 laying down additional 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that the provisions for the common organization of the market activating price shall be fixed at the same stage and in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No shall be valid during the same period as the guide 2592/73 (2), and in particular Article 3 (1 ) thereof ; price ; whereas Regulation ( EEC) No 945/70 (4) Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; determines the types of table wine to which these Whereas an activating price must be fixed annually prices apply, for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : whereas that activating price must be fixed in the light of the factors set out in Article 3 (2) of Regula­ Article 1 tion (EEC) No 816/70 ; The activating prices for the period from 1 6 Whereas the quality of the 1972/73 harvest can gener­ December 1973 to 15 December 1974 are hereby ally be described as good ; fixed as follows Whereas there has been a general falling off in wine 1 . 1.41 u.a per degree/hi for table wine of type R I, prices since the wine year 1972/73 ; whereas this has 2. 1 -35 u.a. per degree/hi for table wine of type R II, already led to the conclusion of private storage 3 . 21.80 u.a. per hi for table wine of type R III, contracts for one type of wine ; 4 . 1.32 u.a. per degree/hi for table wine of type A I, Whereas the forward estimates show that, on the basis 5. 28.40 u.a. per hi for table wine of type A II, of supplies in the previous wine year, there will be 6. 32.40 u.a. per hi for table wine of type A III . greater quantities available than there were in that year ; Article 2

Whereas the level of the activating price must take This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 account of the factors mentioned above ; whereas it December 1973 . seems appropriate therefore to increase the activating price for the period from 16 December 1973 to 15 December 1974 in comparison with the price for the

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

Done at Brussels, 11 December 1973 .

For the Council

The President

lb FREDERIKSEN

(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973, p. 17. (2) OJ No L 269, 26. 9. 1973, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 114, 27. 5. 1970, p. 1 .