31975R0719

20 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 71 / 15

REGULATION ( EEC) No 719/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 19 March 1975

on private storage aid for table wines standing in close economic relationship with table wines of the type R II

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN relationship with R II type table wines are to found COMMUNITIES, on the market and are subjected to the general fall in prices ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas these red table wines standing in close economic relationship with table wines of the type R Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No II are not subject to the above intervention measures 816/70 ( J ) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional and may therefore prevent the measures taken from provisions for the common organization of the market having the desired effects ; whereas it must therefore in wine , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No be made possible for such wines also to be the subject 31 66/74 (2 ), in particular the second subparagraph of of storage contracts ; Article 5 (7) thereof ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5 (3) of are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 provides that, if the state ment Committee for Wine , 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 RECtULATION : •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 later type ; . 1 . Aid for private storage as specified in Article 6 Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 394/75 (3) of 18 (3) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1437/70 shall be February 1975 on private storage aid for table *wines of granted in respect of red table wines which stand in the type R II the Commission made a formal finding close economic relationship with table wines of the that there are grounds for granting private storage aid type R II . to wines of that type ; whereas the amount of such aid 2 . Red wines shall be considered to stand in close is fixed in Article 6 (3) of Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1 437/70 (4) of 20 July - 1970 on storage economic relationship with table wines of the type R contracts for table wine, as last amended by Regula­ II where they have an actual alcoholic strength of not less than 12-50 and not more than 14-50 and are not tion ( EEC) No 341 1 /73 (5 ) ; of type R I or type R III . Whereas the prices of table wines on the Community market are at present showing a downward trend ; Article 2 whereas this tendency is demonstrated by the fact that intervention measures have had to be activated for This Regulation shall enter into force on the day table wines of the type R II ; whereas important quan­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tities of red table wine standing in close economic the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 March 1975 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5. 1970 , p. 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 338 , 17 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 45, 19 . 2 . 1975, p. 15 . (4 ) OJ No L 160 , 22 . 7 . 1970 , p. 16 . (5 ) OJ No L 349, 19 . 12 . 1973 , p . 25 .