31975R1528

17 . 6 . 75 No L 155/7 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1528 / 75 OF THE COMMISSION of 16 June 1975 concerning the temporary suspension of the distillation of table wines provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 1036/ 75

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Where, in any distillery, distillation operations Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1036/75 are 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional interrupted by order of the public authorities, then provisions fo the common organization of the market pursuant to Article 4 (3) of that Regulation the in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No Member State concerned may authorize such 678/75 (2), and in particular Article 7 (3) thereof ; distillery, on the terms set out below, to resume such operations after the interruption Whereas Article 4 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 036/75 (3) of 21 April 1975 laying down in general (a) the distillation contracts must be concluded not rules governing the distillation of table wines during later than 1 July 1975 ; the period 7 June to 31 July 1975 provides that if a (b) the distillery must take delivery of the wine before distillery is obliged to suspend all distillation opera­ the date specified in (a) ; tions by order of the public authorities, it may be (c) the total duration of the operations concerned may decided that the distillation operations may be not exceed 55 days ; resumed in that distillery for a number of days such d) distillation must in any event be completed not that the total duration of the operations concerned later than 20 October 1975 . does not exceed the maximum authorized duration ; whereas a certain number of distilleries may in effect Member States shall notify the Commission of the be obliged to suspend their activities for a certain cases in which they have acted under the foregoing period ; whereas in order to utilize to the maximum provisions . the possibilities of distillation with a view to stabi­ lizing the market, it appears advisable to have recourse Article 2 to the abovementioned provision , Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ following its publication in the Official Journal of ment Committee for Wine, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 June 1975 .

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 . ( 2 ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 43 . (3 ) OJ No L 103 , 23 . 4 . 1975, p. 3 .