31977R1573

14 . 7 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 174/27

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1573/77 of 13 July 1977 on the granting of restorage aid for table wine for which a storage contract was concluded during the 1976/77 wine-growing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, since there is little time for administrative COMMUNITIES , implementation and since the quantities involved are often small and the transport costs small by compar­ ison with the total costs, a standard amount of aid Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European should be fixed ; Economic Community,

Whereas the measures privided for in this Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­ ment Committee for Wine, sions for the common organization of the market in wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 528/77 (2), and in particular Articles 6a and 35 thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of 13 August 1976 on storage contracts for table wine, grape must and concentrated grape must (3) lays down the procedure for concluding contracts ; Article 1 Whereas the quantities of table wine in stock are large for the time of the year ; whereas this is due to the On application and subject to the conditions laid fact that outlets during the current wine-growing year down in Article 2, aid may be granted for the are not absorbing the quantities available at the begin­ restorage of table wine that is covered by a storage ning of the said year ; contract under Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 in another location or another warehouse belonging to a Whereas the wine that is under storage contracts is third party. stored in containers which may be required to store the next harvest ;

Article 2 Whereas, in the circumstances, the restorage aid referred to in Article 6a of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 should now be granted, particularly since the Aid may be granted only where : recent bad weather affecting certain production zones already shows where part of these quantities could be — the distance is not more than 1 50 kilometres ; restored ; neverthless, where storage capacity is not available within this distance, the intervention agency may authorize transport to the nearest appropriate Whereas the aid should be restricted to restorage place of storage, carried out within a maximum distance ; — the storage contracts in question are either concluded before 20 July 1977 or their validity is Whereas, in order to limit this measure to cases where extended by the intervention agencies under it appears economically justified, only those storage Article 16(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 contracts which are concluded or the validity of which before 20 August 1977 and, in the case of long­ has been extended by the intervention agencies term storage contracts, expire after 20 September during a given period should be considered ; wheras, 1977, in order to ensure that the measure is properly imple­ mented, provisions should also be adopted concerning — the restorage takes place between 1 August and 10 the nature of the transport and the date of submission October 1977, and the transport is carried out in of the application ; one or more vehicles,

— applications for aid are submitted before 20 (>) OJ No L 99, 5 . 5. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 69, 16. 3 . 1977, p. 1 . September 1977 to the intervention agency in the (3) OJ No L 221 , 14. 8 . 1976, p. 20. Member State concerned .

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Article 3 2. Member States shall notify the Commission by 30 November 1977 at the latest of the quantities of The aid for all table wines shall be 110 units of wine which have entered into restorage. account per hectolitre.

Article 4 Article 5 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the necessary controls ; they shall, This Regulation shall enter into force on the day in particular, check that the restorage of the wine has following its publication in the Official Journal of actually taken place. the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 July 1977.

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President