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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3622/90 of 14 December 1990 authorizing the conclusion of long-term private storage contracts for table wine, grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified concentrated grape must in respect of the 1990/91 wine year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, need not be used in view of the fairly homogenous characteristics of wines from the 1 990 harvest ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are Economic Community, in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 1325/90 (2), and in particular Articles 32 (5) and 81 thereof,
Article 1 Whereas the forward estimate drawn up for the 1989/90 wine year indicates that the quantities of table wine avai 1 . During the period 16 December 1989 to 15 lable at the beginning of the wine year exceeds by more February 1990 private long-term storage contracts may be than four months' supply those normally used up over the concluded, in accordance with the provisions of Regula year ; whereas the conditions for authorization of long tion (EEC) No 1059/83, for : term storage contracts specified in Article 32 (4) of Regu — table wines, provided that the conditions of Article 6 lation (EEC) No 822/87 are therefore met ; of that Regulation are met, and — grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified Whereas the abovementioned forward estimate indicates concentrated grape must. the existence of surpluses for all types of table wine and for table wines which stand in close economic relation 2. In accordance with Article 47 (1 ) of Regulation ship to those types of table wine ; whereas it should there (EEC) No 822/87 producers who, during the 1987/88 fore be made possible for long-term contracts to be wine year, were subject to the obligations laid down in concluded for those types of table wine ; whereas it is Articles 35, 36 or 39 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 wine necessary by the same token to open this possibility for year shall not be entitled to benefit from the measures grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified provided for in this Regulation unless they provide concentrated grape must ; evidence that they have complied with their obligations during the reference periods laid down in Article 18 of Commssion Regulation (EEC) No 3105/88 (% in Regula Whereas Article 47 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 tion (EEC) No 2224/90 (6), and Article 22 of Commission provides that only producers fulfilling the obligations laid Regulation (EEC) No 441 /88 P). down in Article 35 and, where appropriate, Articles 36 and 39 of that Regulation during a reference period to be determined may qualify for the intervention measures ; Article 2 whereas that period must therefore be specified ; The minimum quality conditions that must be met by table wines which may be the subject of a storage contract Whereas Article 6 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation (EEC) shall be as set out in the Annexes hereto. No 1059/83 of 29 April 1983 on storage contracts for table wine, grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified concentrated grape must (3), as last amended by Article 3 Regulation (EEC) No 2753/89 (4), specifies that table wines eligible for long-term storage contracts shall be Producers who, within the limits laid down in the first classified into two categories on the basis of their charac teristics with regard to quality ; whereas this possibility subparagraph of Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83, wish to conclude a long-term storage contract
(>) OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 19. 0 OJ No L 277, 8 . 10. 1988, p. 21 . (3) OJ No L 116, 30. 4. 1983, p. 77. (6) OJ No L 202, 31 . 7. 1990, p. 34. (4) OJ No L 266, 13. 9. 1989, p. 21 . 0 OJ No L 45, 18 . 2. 1988, p. 15.
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for a table wine shall, when submitting the application for Article 4 conclusion of a contract, advise the intervention agency of the total quantity of table wine they have produced This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its during the current wine year. publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. For this purpose the producer shall submit a copy of the production declaration(s) drawn up pursuant to Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3929/87 It shall apply with effect from 16 December 1990.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 14 December 1990 .
For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No L 369, 29 . 12. 1987, p. 59.
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ANNEX
MINIMUM QUALITY CONDITIONS FOR TABLE WINES
I. White wines [a) minimum actual alcoholic strength : 10,5% vol ; (b) minimum total acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) : 5 grams per litre and 4 grams per litre for table wines produced in Spain (') ; [c) maximum volatile acidity : 9 milliequivalents per litre ; (d) maximum sulphur dioxide content : 1 55 milligrams per litre.
II. Red wines (a) minimum actual alcholic strength : 10,5 % vol ; (b) minimum total acidity (expressed as tartaric acid) : 5 grams per litre and 4 grams per litre for table wines produced in Spain (') ; (c) maximum volatile acidity : 11 milliequivalents per litre ; fd) maximum sulohar dioxide content : 115 milligrams per litre . 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 time limits as those fixed for white wines shall apply. Conditions (a) and (d) shall not apply to wines of types R III, A II and A III .
(') Article 127 of the Act of Accession.