31974R1221

No L 133 / 20 Official Journal of the European Communities 16 . 5 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 1221 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 15 May 1974 on private storage aid for table wines standing in close economic relationship with table wines of the type A I

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN on the market and are subjected to the general fall in COMMUNITIES, prices ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas these white table wines standing in close Economic Community ; economic relationship with table wines of the type A I are not subject to the above intervention and there­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No fore risk preventing the measures taken from having 816/70 (') of 28 April 1970 laying down additional the desired effects ; whereas it must therefore be made provisions for the common organization of the market possible for such wines to be the subject of storage in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No contracts ; 2592/73 (2 ), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 5 (7) ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (3) of ment Committee for Wines, Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that, if the state of the market so requires, a decision may be taken to grant aid also for table wines of a type other than that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for which the average price remains less than the acti­ vating price for two consecutive weeks, where such Article 1 table wines stand in close economic relationship with the latter type ; 1 . The aid for private storage provided for in Article 6 (3) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 shall Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 847/74 (3) be granted for white table wines which stand in close of 9 April 1974 on private storage aids for table wines economic relationship to table wines of type A I. of the type A I, noted that private storage aid should be granted to wines of that type ; whereas the amount 2 . White wines shall be considered to stand in of such aid is fixed in Article 6 (3) of Commission close economic relationship to table wines of type A I Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 (4) of 20 July 1970 on where they have an actual alcoholic strength of not storage contracts for table wine, as last amended by less than 9-5° and not more than 14° and are not of Regulation (EEC) No 341 1 /73 (5) ; type A II or type A III . Whereas the prices of table wines on the Community Article 2 market are at present showing a downward trend ; whereas this tendency is demonstrated by the fact, This Regulation shall enter into force on the day that intervention measures have had to be activated following its publication in the Official Journal of for A I type of table wines ; whereas important quanti­ the European Communities. ties of white table wine standing in close economic relationship with A I type table wines are to be found It shall apply from 1 May 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 May 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 100 , 10 . 4. 1974, p. 11 . (4) OJ No L 160 , 22. 7. 1970, p. 16. (5) OJ No L 349, 19 . 12. 1973 , p . 25 .