31976R3060
15 . 12 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 345/ 13
COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 3060/76
of 14 December 1976
granting aid for the long-term private storage of certain table wines for the wine year 1976/77
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN concluded, it appears advisable to permit the conclu COMMUNITIES, sion of long-term storage contracts for wine covered by short-term contracts concluded before the date of entry into force of this Regulation ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ment Committee for Wine, 8 1 6/70 of 28 April 1 970 laying down additional provi sions for the common organization of the market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2829/76 (2), and in particular Articles 5 (7) and 6 (5) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : thereof,
Whereas, according to the forward estimate for Article 1 1976/77, the quantities of table wine available at the beginning of the wine year exceed by over four Authorization is hereby given for the conclusion of months' consumption the total foreseeable require long-term contracts for all types of table wines and for ments for the said wine year ; whereas, consequently, table wines which stand in close economic relation the conditions for the conclusion of long-term storage ship to those types of table wines, provided that the contracts under Article 5 (4) of the abovementioned actual alcoholic strength thereof is not less then 10° . Regulation are fulfilled ;
Whereas the forward estimate referred to above reveals Article 2 the existence of surpluses for all types of table wines and for table wines which stand in close economic For the storage contracts referred to in Article 1 , the relationship to those types of table wines ; whereas amount of aid as specified in Article 11 ( 1 ) of Regula provision should therefore be made to enable long tion (EEC) No 2015/76 shall be increased by 15% . term contracts to be concluded for those types of table wines ; whereas, in accordance with Article 5 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70, the right to conclude Article 3 short-term contracts for the wines in question should therefore be suspended ; Short-term contracts concluded before the date of entry into force of this Regulation shall, at the request Whereas Article 6 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 of the party concerned, be terminated in respect of lays down that, for long-term contracts, the amount of those quantities for which at the time of such termina the aid may be increased to 20 % ; whereas, in the tion that party enters into a long-term storage light of the conditions prevailing in this wine year, contract . and in particular of the quantities available, which are such as to permit the conclusion of long-term In that event, entitlement to short-term storage aid for contracts, provision should be made for increasing by the said quantities shall be lost in respect of the 15% the rates of aid specified in Article 11 ( 1 ) of period during which they are under long-term Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 of 13 contract . August 1976 on storage contracts for table wine, grape must and concentrated grape must (3) ;
Article 4 Whereas, in order to relieve the market on a more lasting basis and to prevent further difficulties after This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its the expiry of the short-term contracts already publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. (>) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 326, 25. 11 . 1976, p. 1 . (}) OJ No L 221 , 14. 8 . 1976, p. 20 . It shall apply with 'effect from 16 December 1976.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . '
Done at Brussels, 14 December 1976 .
For the Commission
P.J. LARDINOIS
Member of the Commission