31978R1863

No L 215 /16 Official Journal of the European Communities 4. 8 . 78

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1863/78 of 25 July 1978

determining, for the 1978/79 wine-growing year, the prices to be paid under the compulsory distillation of the by-products of wine-making and the maximum amount of the contribution from the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, applied on a standard basis ; whereas, on the other hand, when the prices referred to in the third subparagraph of that paragraph are fixed, they Having regard to the Treaty establishing the should be based on the variations in cost which result European Economic Community, from the differing origins of the alcohol supplied; whereas it should be specified that all these prices Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No should apply to rectified alcohol; 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provisions for the common organization of the Whereas the maximum amount of the contribution market in wine ( x), as last amended by Regulation from the Guarantee Section of the European (EEC) No 1861 /78 (2), and in particular Article 24 (6) Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund should be thereof, fixed in the light of the situation on the market in alcohol, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas, in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (EEC) No 816/70 and Articles 2, 3 and 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1930/76 of 20 July 1976 on the distillation of the by-products of wine-making (3), as Article 1 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1862/78 (4), the Council fixes for each wine-growing year the 1 . The prices for the 1978/79 wine-growing year buying-in price for wine deliveries and the price for shall be as follows : the alcohol from wine deliveries under the compulsory distillation of the by-products of wine-making and — 0.58 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree determines the maximum amount of the costs of the of alcohol for the buying-in price for wine intervention agencies to be financed by the Guarantee deliveries, Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and — 0.93 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree Guarantee Fund; of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the wine deliveries referred to in the first Whereas the buying-in price for wine deliveries subparagraph of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) should be fixed taking into account the quantities No 1930/76, available and the prices of table wines on the various — 0.96 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree Community markets ; whereas the application of this of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the criterion results in the buying-in price being fixed at a deliveries of marc referred to in the third level corresponding to the lower limit laid down in subparagraph of the aforesaid Article 3 (2), Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1930/76; — 0.90 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the Whereas when the price of alcohol from wine deliveries of wine referred to in the third deliveries is fixed as referred to in the first subparagraph of the aforesaid Article 3 (2), subparagraph of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 930/76, the criteria referred to therein should be — 0.90 unit of account per hectolitre and per degree of alcohol for the price of the alcohol from the deliveries of lees referred to in the third subparagraph of the aforesaid Article 3 (2). (*) OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 . (2) See page 1 of this Official Journal. (s) OJ No L 211 , 5. 8. 1976, p. 1 . The price of the alcohol from wine deliveries shall (4) See page 14 of this Official Journal. apply to rectified alcohol.

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2. The maximum amount of the contribution from Article 2 the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund for the above wine-growing year shall be 0.30 unit of account per This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September hectolitre/degree of alcohol. 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 25 July 1978 .

For the Council

The President

J. ERTL