31990R3669

19 . 12. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 356/25

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3669/90 of 18 December 1990 laying down a transitional measure relating to coupage of table wine in Spain for 1991

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Management Committee for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Wine, Economic Community,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal ('), and in particular Article 90 thereof, Article 1 Whereas Article 16 (5) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 . Until 31 December 1991 , coupage of a wine suitable 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of for yielding a white table wine or of a white table wine the market in wine (2), as last amended by Regulation with a wine suitable for yielding a red table wine or with a (EEC) No 1325/90 f), prohibits coupage of a white table red table wine shall be permitted on Spanish territory wine with a red table wine ; whereas the abovementioned provided that the product obtained has the characteristics practice forms part of the arrangements in force in Spain of a red table wine and that the percentage of red wine and whereas Article 125 of the Act of Accession used is not less than 65 % . authorizes in it until 31 December 1989, and Regulation (EEC) No 3985/89 (4) confirms this authorization until 31 2. Until the date in paragraph 1 , coupage in the December 1990 ; Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 of Spanish wine other than white table wine with wine from Whereas the conditions for the abandonment of this other Member States shall be prohibited. practice are not yet ripe in that country as they are related 3. Spanish red and rose table wines may only be the to the structure of wine-growing and consumers' attitudes, subject of trade with the other Member States or be which change relatively slowly ; whereas the exported to third countries if they are not obtained from abandonment of the abovementioned practice would coupage as referred to in paragraph 1 . result in the immediate future in a serious imbalance on the market generating a shortage of red wine and a For the purposes of applying paragraph 3, each substantial surplus of white wine, which would require competent authority designated by Spain shall guarantee major intervention operations ; whereas the need to avoid until 30 June 1992 the origin of Spanish red table wine very serious disturbance of the market justifies the by affixing a stamp preceded by the words 'wine not adoption of a transitional measure ; obtained from white/red coupage' in the box reserved for official remarks on document provided for in Whereas, so that the possibility of carrying out coupage Commission Regulation (EEC) No 986/89 (*). involving white table wine and red table wine remains limited to the country where it is necessary, care must be Article 2 taken to ensure that wine obtained from this practice may not be mixed with other Community wines ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 18 December 1990.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 302, 15. 11 . 1985, p. 9 . (2) OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 19 . 0 OJ No L 380, 29. 12. 1989, p. 31 . 0 OJ No L 106, 18 . 4. 1989, p. 1 .