31976R0168

28 . 1 . 76 No L 19 / 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 168 / 76

of 27 January 1976

fixing the average producer prices for wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas arrangements for the notification by the COMMUNITIES, Member States of quotations and information related thereto are specified in Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1020/70 ; whereas, where this information is not avail­ Economic Community, able for any marketing centre, the average price for Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No the preceding week must be maintained ; 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­ Whereas the average price for the type of wine in sions for the common organization of the market in question must be fixed per degree/hi or per hi as wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No appropriate ; whereas, if the Tuesday is a public 1932/75 (2), and in particular Article 4 ( 1 ) thereof, holiday, the average price must be fixed on the Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 following working day ; provides that an average producer price must be fixed Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the for each type of wine for which a guide price is fixed ; information at present available to the Commission whereas this average price must be fixed for each that the average price should be fixed as shown in the marketing centre for the type of wine in question on the basis of all the facts available ; Annex to this Regulation ,

Whereas the marketing centres for table wines are determined in Commission Regulation ( EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1020/70 of 29 May 1970 on recording quotations and fixing average prices for table wines (3), as last Article 1 amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 528 /74 (4) ;

The average prices referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regu­ Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70 lation ( EEC) No 816/70 are hereby fixed as shown in provides that the average price must be fixed on the the Annex to this Regulation . basis of the average of the quotations notified, parti­ cular account being taken of the extent to which these quotations are representative, the comments of the Article 2 Member States, and the alcoholic strength and quality of table wines which have been the subject of transac­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 January tions ; 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 January 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 99 , 5 . S. 1970 , p . 1 . (') OJ No L 198 , 29 . 7 . 1975 , p . 19 . (3 ) OJ No L 1 IX , I. 6 . 1970 , p . 16 . (•») OJ No L 64, 6 . 1974 , p . 8 .

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ANNEX

Average prices for table wines at the various marketing centres

i u.a . per u.a . per Type degree/hi Type degree/h !

R I A I

Béziers No Bordeaux 1.635 quotation Nantes 1.635 No Montpellier Bari 1-237 quotation Cagliari No No Narbonne quotation quotation Chieti No No Nîmes quotation quotation Ravenna (Lugo, Faenza ) 1-377 1-789 Perpignan Trapani (Alcamo) 1-225 1-616 Asti Treviso 1-517 Firenze 1.470 Lecce 1.400' 1.254 Pescara No Reggio Emilia quotation

Treviso 1.459 1-453 u.a. /h) Verona ( for local wines)

A 11

R 11 Rheinpfalz (Oberhaardt) 22.35

Rheinhessen (Hügelland) 25.15 Bari 1.546 1.546 The wine-growing region of the Barletta Luxembourg Moselle No 1.867 quotation ('■ Cagliari Lecce 1.470

Taranto 1.517

A III

Mosel-Rheingau No quotation (*) R III u.a . /hi The wine-growing region of the Luxembourg Moselle No Rheinpfalz-Rheinhessen (Hügelland) 20.68 quotation (')

(') Quotation not taken into account in accordance with Article 10 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1020/70.