31974R3088

No L 327 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 7 . 12 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3088 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 December 1974 laying down detailed rules for the distillation of wine of quality lower than table wine and originating in certain areas affected by adverse weather conditions

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES , Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; The distillation of wine shall be authorized in the following areas : Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No — Gers : 816/70 ( ! ) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional Montreal, Cazaubon, Condom, Nogaro, Eauze, provisions for the common organization of the market Aignan, Riscle, Plaisance, Vic-Fezensac, Valence in wine , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No sur-Baïse , Fleurance 1 532/74 (2), and in particular Article 38 thereof ; — Haute-Garonne : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Fronton , Villemur, Carbonne 298 1 /74 (3) of 27 November 1974 laying down general rules for the distillation of wine of quality lower than — Tarn-et-Garonne : table wine and originating in certain areas affected by adverse weather conditions, and in particular Article 9 Grisolles , Montech , Castelsarrasin , Auvillar, thereof ; Verdun-sur-Garonne, Montauban

— Tarn : Whereas under Regulation (EEC) No 2981 /74 Rabastens , Lisle-sur-Tarn , Gaillac , Castelnau-de producers from certain weather-affected areas whose Montmiral , Lavaur, Cadalen , Albi , Cordes wines are of a quality unsuitable for use as table wine may have those wines distilled ; — Landes : Whereas, in order to ensure that the measures Gabarret, Roquefort, Villeneuve-de-Marsan, Grena­ de-sur-fAdour, Aire-sur-fAdour provided for are applied only in those areas of the French departments specified in Article 1 of that -— Aude : Regulation actually affected, it is necessary to define those areas more closely ; Alaigne, Alzonne, Axat, Belcaire, Belpech, Carcas­ sonne (Est-Ouest), Castelnaudary (Nord et Sud), Whereas provision should be made to ensure that the Chalabre, Conques-sur-Orbiel, Couiza, Fanjeaux, minimum price referred to in Article 4 of Regulation Limoux, Mas-Cabardès, Montreal , Quillan , St-Hilaire , Saissac, Salles-sur-l'Hers . (EEC) No 2981 /74 is in fact paid ; whereas, in parti­ cular, Member States should be authorized to require that the aid to the distiller be made over to the Article 2 producer as an advance in respect of the contract price for the wine to be delivered ; In order to ensure that the minimum price as speci­ fied in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 2981 /74 is Whereas the competent agency as referred to in paid, the competent national authorities may require Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2981 /74 and the that contracts as referred to in Article 3 of that Regula­ Commission must be kept informed of the progress of tion be concluded through the intermediary of the distillation operations and in particular of the quanti­ intervention agency. ties of wine distilled and the quantities of alcohol Article 3 obtained ; 1 . The aid shall be paid to the distiller. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation The competent national authorities may, however, are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ require that the aid be made over to the producer, ment Committee for Wine , with the proviso that the latter is to receive a price which , including the aid, must not be less than the (!) OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970 , p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 166, 21 . 6 . 1974, p. 1 . minimum price specified in Article 4 of Regulation 3 OJ No L 318 , 28 . 11 . 1974, p. 3 . ( EEC) No 2981 /74.

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2. The aid shall be paid not more than 30 days the first indent of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) after distillation . No 2981 /74 and those referred to in the second indent of that Article . Article 4 2 . Member States shall not later than 28 February 1975 inform the Commission by telex of the quanti­ 1 . Distillers shall communicate to the competent ties of wine distilled and of the quantities, expressed agency referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2981 / 74 : as pure alcohol, of the products obtained therefrom, distinguishing between such products as provided in (a) not later than 2 January 1975, copies of all paragraph 1 . contracts concluded pursuant to that Regulation between 1 and 15 December 1974 ; Article 5 (b) not later than 15 February 1975, details of the 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the quantities of wine distilled under the abovemen­ third day following its publication in the Official tioned contracts and the quantities , expressed as Journal of the European Communities. pure alcohol , of the products obtained therefrom, distinguishing between the products referred to in 2. It shall apply with effect from 1 December 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 December 1974 . For the Commission The President

Fran^ois-Xavier ORTOLI