31977R2261

No L 261 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 14. 10 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2261/77 of 13 October 1977 terminating the conclusion of short-term private storage contracts in respect of table wine of type R I and table wines in close economic relationship to that type of wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1328/77 COMMUNITIES, of 21 June 1977 (3) on private storage aid for table wine of type R provides for the grant of private Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European storage aid from 21 June 1977 for table wine of type Economic Community, R I ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­ Whereas it has been established that the weighted average price for table wine of type R I during the sions for the common organization of the market in past two weeks has been higher than the activating wine (J ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No price ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 221 1 /77 (2), and in particular Article 5 (7) thereof, 1518 /77 of 6 July 1977 (4) enabled short-term private Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation intro­ storage contracts to be concluded from 8 July 1977 in ducing a system of aid for the private storage of table respect of table wines closely related economically to wine lays down that the granting of such aid is to be the R I type of table wine ; subject to the conclusion of a short-term or long-term storage contract ; whereas the first subparagraph of Whereas the conditions set out in Article 5 (2) of paragraph 2 of the said Article lays down that short­ Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 are therefore fulfilled, term storage contracts may be entered into when the weighted average price of a type of table wine remains below the activating price for two consecutive weeks HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and that such contracts may no longer be entered into when the weighted average price of that type of wine is above , the activating price for two consecutive Article 1 weeks ; whereas, moreover, the second subparagraph of the said paragraph 2 lays down that a decision may From 14 October 1977, no short-term private storage be taken to allow short-term contracts to be contracts may be entered into in respect of table wine concluded also in respect of table wines other than of type R I or table wines closely related economically those of the type for which this possibility has been to that type of wine. made available, where such wines are closely related economically to that type of table wine ; whereas short-term contracts may no longer be entered into in Article 2 respect of these wines when they are not permissible in respect of the type of table wine to which they are This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 October closely related economically ; 1977 .

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

Done at Brussels, 13 October 1977. For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(') OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 153, 22. 6. 1977, p. 7. (*) OJ No L 256, 7. 10 . 1977, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 169, 7. 7. 1977, p. 15.