31974R0098

No L 13 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 16 . 1 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 98 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION

of 15 January 1974

fixing the average producer prices for wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN able for any marketing centre, the average price for COMMUNITIES , the preceding week must be maintained ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the average price for the type of wine in Economic Community ; question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as appropriate ; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No holiday, the average price must be fixed on the 816/70 (') of 28 April 1970 laying down additional following working day ; provisions for the common organization of the market in wine as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas, under Article 4 (b) (5) of Council Regulation 2592/73 (-), and in particular Article 4 ( 1 ) thereof ; ( EEC) No 974/71 (5) of 12 May 1971 , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 34.50 /73 (6), in the case Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 where, when the Regulations laying down the rules for provides that an average producer price must be fixed the common organization of the agricultural markets for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed ; are applied, the prices on the Italian markets are whereas this average price must be fixed for each concerned, the influence of the measures forseen in marketing centre for the type of wine in question on paragraph 1 of the same Article is taken into consider­ the basis of all the facts available ; ation ; Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the determined in Commission Regulation ( EEC) No information at present available to the Commission 1020/70 (3 ) of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations that the average price should be fixed as shown in the and fixing average prices for table wines , as last Annex to this Regulation ; amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 765/72 (4) ;

Whereas Article 10 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1020 /70 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : provides that the average price must be fixed on the basis of the average of the quotations notified, parti­ cular account being taken of the extent to which these A rt iele 1 quotations are representative, the comments of the The average prices referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regu­ Member States, and the alcoholic strength and quality lation ( EEC) No 816/70 are hereby fixed as shown in of table wines which have been the subject of transac­ the Annex to this Regulation . tions ;

Whereas arrangements for the notification by the Article 2 Member States of quotations and information related thereto are specified in Regulation ( EEC) No This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 January 1020 / 70 ; whereas, where this information is not avail­ 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels , 15 January 1974 .

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 . ( 5 ) OJ No L 106 , 12 . 5 . 1971 , p . 1 . H OJ No L 89, 15 . 4. 1972, p. 31 . ( 6) OJ No L 353 , 22 . 12 . 1973 , p . 25 .

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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 1·644 Bordeaux No Montpellier No quotation ( ! ) quotation Nantes 1·471 Narbonne 1·653 Bari No Nîmes 1·622 quotation Perpignan 1·736 Cagliari No quotation Asti No quotation Chieti 1·480 Firenze No 1·664 Ravenna ( Lugo, Faenza ) quotation Trapani ( Alcamo) 1·487 Lecce No Treviso No quotation quotation Pescara 2·036 Reggio Emilia 2·036 Treviso 1·852 Verona ( for local wines) 1·889

u.a . /hi

A II R II Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) 19·93 Bari No Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) 21·86 quotation The wine-growing region of the Barletta No Luxembourg Moselle No quotation quotation (*)

Cagliari No quotation Lecce No quotation Taranto No quotation A III

Mosel 32·84 u.a . / hi R 111 Rheingau 32·84 The wine-growing region of the Rheinpfalz 18·92 Luxembourg Moselle No Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) 18·92 quotation (*)

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