31976R3140

No L 354/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 24 . 12 . 76

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3140/76 of 21 December 1976 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1162/76 on measures designed to adjust wine­ growing potential to market requirements

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 1 . The following shall be added to Article 2 (2) : COMMUNITIES, '(d) new planting carried out following reparcelling Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European measures or expropriation measures in the Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 public interest, adopted pursuant to existing thereof, national legislation .' Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2. Article 3 shall be replaced by the following : 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­ 'Article 3 sions for the common organization of the market in wine (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No All replanting as from 1 September 1976 and all 2842/76 (2), and in particular Article 17 (5) thereof, new planting as from 1 January 1977 shall be carried out until the deadline laid down in Article Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 2 ( 1 ) with the varieties classified for the administra­ Having regard to the' opinion of the European Parlia­ tive unit concerned : ment (3), (a) in the category of recommended varieties, Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and or Social Committee (4), (b) in the category of authorized varieties entered Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 62/76 of 1 7 on a list to be drawn up.' May 1976 on measures designed to adjust wine­ growing potential to market requirements ^) provided 3 . Article 5 (2) shall be replaced by the following : for a temporary prohibition on new plantings ; whereas planting carried out following reparcelling '2. The Council, acting in accordance with the measures or expropriation measures in the public procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, interest should be exempted from this prohibition ; shall decide, by 1 December 1978, to extend if necessary the provisions of Articles 2 and 3 . This Whereas certain other provisions of that Regulation extension must apply simultaneously to both require amending so as to avoid there being two Articles.' different concurrent systems for new planting and replanting respectively, Article 2 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Article 1 following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. Regulation (EEC) No 1162/76 shall be amended as follows : Article 1 ( 1 ) shall apply as from 1 December 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976. For the Council The President A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE

(') OJ No L 99, 5. 5 . 1970, p. 1 . \2) OJ No L 327, 26. 11 . 1976, p. 2. (3) Opinion delivered on 17. 12. 1976 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (4) Opinion delivered on 24. 11 . 1976 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (5) OJ No L 135, 24. 5. 1976, p. 32.