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22. 9 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 259/7

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2202/78 of 21 September 1978 on the granting of re-storage aid for table wine for which a storage contract was concluded during the 1977/78 wine-growing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ison with the total costs, a standard amount of aid COMMUNITIES, should be fixed ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Economic Community, are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ ment Committee for Wine, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­ sions for the common organization of the market in wine (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1861 /78 (2), and in particular Articles 6a and 35 thereof,

Article 1 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 of 13 August 1976 on storage contracts for table wine, On application and subject to the conditions laid grape must and concentrated grape must (3), as down in Article 2, aid may be granted for the amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2206/77 (4), lays restorage of table wine that is covered by a storage down the procedure for concluding contracts ; contract under Regulation (EEC) No 2015/76 in another location of another warehouse belonging to a Whereas the quantities of table wine in stock are large third party. for the time of the year ; whereas this is due to the fact that outlets during the current wine-growing year are not absorbing the quantities available at the begin­ Article 2 ning of the said year ;

Aid may be granted only where : Whereas the wine that is under storage contracts is stored in containers which may be required to store — the distance is not more than 1 50 kilometres ; the next harvest ; nevertheless, where storage capacity is not avail­ able within this distance, the intervention agency Whereas, in order that producers may store their next may authorize transport to the nearest appropriate vintage under normal conditions, aid should be place of storage, granted for the re-storage of table wine, but subject to — the storage contracts in question are either a limitation as to distance ; concluded or their validity is extended by the inter­ vention agencies under Article 16 of Regulation Whereas, in order to limit this measure to cases where (EEC) No 2015/76 before 1 September 1978 and, it appears economically justified, only those storage in the case of long-term storage contracts, expire contracts which are concluded or the validity of which after 20 October 1978, has been extended by the intervention agencies — the re-storage takes place between 15 September during a given period should be considered ; whereas, and 20 October 1978 and the transport is carried in order to ensure that the measure is properly imple­ out in one or more vehicles, mented, provisions should also be adopted concerning the nature of the transport and the date of submission — applications for aid together with the supporting of the application ; documents are submitted before 15 November 1978 to the intervention agency of the Member State concerned . Whereas, since there is little time for administrative implementation and since the quantities involved are often small and the transport costs small by compar Article 3 (') OJ No L 99, 5. 5. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 215, 4. 8 . 1978 , p. 1 . The aid for all table wines shall be 1.10 units of (J) OJ No L 221 , 14. 8 . 1976, p. 20 . H OJ No L 255, 6. 10 . 1977, p. 13 . account per hectolitre .

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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 re-storage of the wine has following its publication in the Official Journal of actually taken place. the European Communities. 2. Member States shall notify the Commission by 31 December 1978 at the latest of the quantities of wine which have entered into re-storage. It shall apply from 15 September 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 September 1978 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President