31974R0161

No L 19/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 23 . 1 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 161 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION

of 22 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 (2 ), and in particular Article 4 ( 1 ) thereof ; ( EEC) No 974/ 71 (5 ) of 12 May 1971 , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 3450/73 ( 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 Article 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 23 January 1020/70 ; whereas , where this information is not avail­ 1 974 .

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

Done at Brussels, 22 January 1974 .

For the Commission

The President

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

23 . 1 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 19 / 9

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 1-631 Bordeaux 1-530 Montpellier 1-638 Nantes 1-377 Narbon ne 1-658 Bari 1-546 Nîmes 1-622 Cagliari No Perpignan 1-678 quotation Asti 2-079 Chieti 1-458 Firenze 2-036 Ravenna ( Lugo , Faenza ) 1-664 Lecce Trapani ( Alcamo ) 1-517 No _ quotation 1-849 T reviso Pescara No quotation ( x ) Reggio Emilia 2-036 Treviso 1-852 Verona ( for local wines ) 1-889

u. a. /hi

A II Rheinpfalz ( Oberhaardt) 20-93 R II 23-64 Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) Bari 2-034 No The wine-growing region of the Barletta 2-145 Luxembourg Moselle quotation i 1 )

Cagliari 2-083 Lecce No quotation Taranto No quotation

A III u. a. / hi Mosel 32-79 R 111 Rheingau 32-79 Rheinpfalz 19-13 No The wine-growing region of the Rheinhessen ( Hügelland ) 19-13 Luxembourg Moselle quotation i 1 )

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