31975R0820

27 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 78 /95

REGULATION ( EEC) No 820/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 March 1975 specifying the maximum quantity of table wine which may be distilled pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 267/75

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN what percentage of the quantities indicated in requests COMMUNITIES, to distil may be distilled ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Economic Community ; are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Wine, Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 816/70 (') of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provisions for the common organization of the market HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in wine, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 3 1 66/74 (2), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof ; Article 1 Whereas Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 267/75 (3) of 31 January 1975 laying down general 1 . The total quantity of table wines which may be rules for table wine distilling operations which should distilled pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 267/ 75 shall be limited to 4-6 million hectolitres . end on 6 June 1975 provides that, where the total quantity of table wines resulting from requests to 2. The percentage of the quantities indicated in the distil which have been submitted exceeds the quantity distillation applications already submitted which may necessary to improve the market situation , it may be be distilled under that Regulation shall be 20 % . decided to limit distillation to a quantity lower than that total quantity ; Article 2 Whereas the quantity covered by the requests to distil already submitted greatly exceeds the quantity consid­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its ered appropriate in order to improve the market situa­ publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. tion ; whereas it is therefore necessary to determine

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

Done at Brussels, 26 March 1 975 . 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 30, 4. 2 . 1975, p. 2.