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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2775 /77 of 14 December 1977 authorizing the conclusion of long-term private storage contracts for certain table wines for the 1977/78 wine year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN to justify the conclusion of long-term contracts, provi COMMUNITIES , sion should be made for increasing by 10 % the rates of aid specified in Article 11 of Commission Regula Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tion (EEC) No 2015/76 of 13 August 1976 on storage Economic Community, contracts for table wine, grape must and concentrated grape must (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2206/77 (4) ; whereas, however, a 20 % increase should 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi be provided for contracts for table wines of a higher sions for the common organization of the market in quality, and therefore of a higher price, than the wine (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No average table wines which may be subject to long 221 1 /77 (2), and in particular Articles 5 (6) and 6 (5) term storage contracts ; thereof, Whereas, in order to relieve the market on a more Whereas the estimates for 1977/78 show that the lasting basis and to prevent further difficulties after quantity of table wines available at the beginning of the expiry of the short-term contracts already that year exceeds total foreseeable requirements for concluded, it appears advisable to permit the conclu the said year by more than four months' consump sion of long-term storage contracts for wine covered tion ; whereas, consequently, the conditions for autho by short-term contracts concluded before the date of rizing the conclusion of long-term storage contracts entry into force of this Regulation ; under Article 5 (4) of the abovementioned Regulation are fulfilled ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage Whereas the abovementioned estimates reveal the ment Committee for Wine, existence of surpluses for all types of table wine and for table wines which stand in close economic relation ship to those types of table wine ; whereas provision HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : should therefore be made to enable long-term contracts to be concluded for those type§ of table wine ; Article 1
Whereas Article 6 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 1 . Authorization is hereby given for the conclusion lays down that, for long-term contracts, the amount of of long-term storage contracts for all types of table the aid may be increased to 20 % ; whereas, in view of wine and for table wines which stand in close the conditions prevailing in this wine year, and in economic relationship to those types of table wine, particular of the quantities available, which are such as provided that they meet the following conditions :
I. White wines (a) minimum actual alcoholic strength : 1 0 % by volume ; (b) minimum total acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) : 4-5 grams per litre ; (c) maximum volatile acidity : nine milliequivalents ; (d) maximum sulphur dioxide content : 160 milligrams per litre ; (e) maximum residual sugar content : 2-5 grams per litre ; (f) resistance with exposure to air : good for 24 hours ; (g) absence of abnormal tastes.
II . Red wines (a) minimum actual alcoholic strength : 1 0 % by volume ; (b) minimum total acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) : five grams per litre ;
( 1) OJ No L 99, 5. 5 . 1970, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 221 , 14. 8 . 1976, p. 20 . (2) OJ No L 256, 7 . 10 . 1977, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 255, 6. 10 . 1977, p. 13 .
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(c) maximum volatile acidity : — wines whose actual alcoholic strength is less than 12-5 % by volume : 12 milliequivalents ; — wines whose actual alcoholic strength is equal to or greater than 12-5% by volume : 14 milliequivalents ; (d) maximum sulphur dioxide content : 125 milligrams per litre ; (e) maximum residual sugar content : 2-5 grams per litre ; (f) resistance with exposure to air : good for 24 hours : (g) absence of abnormal tastes ; (h) absence of hybrids .
Rose wines must comply with the conditions laid down above for red wines except as regards their content of sulphur dioxide, for which the same limits apply as in the case of white wines . Conditions (a), (d) and (e) shall not apply to table wines of types R III, A II and A III. 2. For the purposes of this Regulation, there shall be considered to be in close economic relationship with table wine of type : — A I, those white table wines with an actual alcoholic strength of not less than 12° and not more than 14° , not belonging to type A II or type A III, — R I, those red wines with an actual alcoholic strength of not less than 12° and not more than 12-5° , not belonging to type R III, — R II, those red table wines with an actual alcoholic strength of more than 12-5° and not more than 14-5° , not belonging to type R III .
Article 2 For the storage contracts referred to under Article 1 , the aid provided for under Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 shall be increased by 10 % . However, the said aid shall be increased by 20 % in the case of table wines meeting the following conditions :
I. White wines (a) minimum actual alcoholic strength : 1 1 % by volume ; (b) minimum total acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) : 4-5 grams per litre ; (c) maximum volatile acidity : eight milliequivalents (d) maximum sulphur dioxide content : 140 milligrams per litre ; (e) maximum residual sugar content : two grams per litre ; (f) resistance with exposure to air : good for 24 hours ; (g) absence of abnormal tastes.
II . Red wines (a) minimum actual alcoholic strength : 1 1 % by volume ; (b) minimum total acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) : 4-5 grams per litre ; (c) maximum volatile acidity : 1 1 milliequivalents ; (d) maximum sulphur dioxide content : 100 milligrams per litre ; (e) maximum residual sugar content : two grams per litre ; (f) resistance with exposure to air : good for 24 hours ; (g) absence of abnormal tastes ; (h) absence of hybrids .
Rose wines must comply with the conditions laid down above for red wines except as regards their content of sulphur dioxide, for which the same limits apply as in the case of white wines .
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Conditions (a), (d) and (e) shall not apply to table wines of types R III, A II and A III .
Article 3 Short-term contracts concluded before the date of entry into force of this Regulation, shall, at the request of the party concerned, be terminated in respect of those quantities for which at the time of such termination that party enters into a long-term storage contract . In this event, for the quantities thus placed under a long-term storage contract, entitle ment to short-term storage aid shall not be lost in respect of the period during which they were the subject of the short-term contract.
Article 4 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply with effect from 16 December 1977.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 14 December 1977. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President