31975R3220

11 . 12. 75 No L 320/ 3 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 3220/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 9 December 1975 fixing the activating prices for table wines for the period 16 December 1975 to 15 December 1976

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN therefore, the activating prices fixed for the previous COMMUNITIES, wine year should be increased, without, however, encouraging production ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the guide prices for the period 16 December 1975 to 15 December 1976 were fixed by Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 661 /75 (3) ; whereas Article 3 (3) of Regula­ 816/70 (*) of 28 April 1970 laying down additional tion (EEC) No 816/70 provides that the activating provisions for the common organization of the market price shall be fixed at the same stage and shall be in wine, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No valid during the same period as the guide price ; 1 932/75 (2), and in particular Article 3 ( 1 ) thereof ; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 945/70 (4) determines Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; the types of table wine to which these prices apply,

Whereas an activating price must be fixed annually for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : taking into consideration the factors set out in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 ; Article 1 Whereas the quality of the 1975/76 harvest can gener­ ally be regarded as average ; The activating prices for the period 16 December 1975 to 15 December 1976 are hereby fixed as Whereas there has been a slight increase in average follows : wine prices since the end of the 1974/75 wine year ; whereas, however, for all other wine types with the 1 . 1-71 u.a. per degree/hi for table wine of type R I, exception of type R II the prices recorded in at least 2. 1-71 u.a. per degree/hi for table wine of type R II, one trading centre are below the activating prices ; 3 . 26-70 u.a. per hi for table wine of type R III, 4. 1-61 u.a. per degree/hi for table wine of type A I, Whereas, because of the lower level of stocks brought 5. 35-58 u.a. per hi for table wine of type A II, forward from the previous wine-growing year and the 6 . 40-63 u.a. per hi for table wine of type A III . fact that the harvest is of average quantity, forward esti­ mates show that the quantity available is lower than Article 2 that recorded for last year ; Whereas the level of activating prices must take This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 account of the factors mentioned above ; whereas, December 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1975 .

For the Council

The President M. RUMOR

(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5. 1970, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 10 . 2 OJ No L 198 , 29 . 7. 1975, p. 19 . 4 OJ No L 114, 27. 5 . 1970 , p. 1 .