Legal provisions of COM(1998)51-10 - Amendment of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 on the common organisation of the market in wine

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dossier COM(1998)51-10 - Amendment of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 on the common organisation of the market in wine.
document COM(1998)51 EN
date July 20, 1998


Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 is amended as follows:

1. in Article 6(1):

- in the first subparagraph '31 August 1998` shall be replaced by '31 August 2000`,

- in the third subparagraph 'and/or 1998/99` shall be added after '1997/98`,

- the following subparagraphs shall be added after the third subparagraph:

'Authorisations for new plantings may also be granted by Member States during the 1998/99 and 1999/2000 wine years.

These authorisations may not exceed, per Member State, the following limits for these two years taken together:

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These authorisations may not be granted:

- to wine from specified areas which have been the subject, over the last three wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88;

- to wine from administrative regions in which the total of the quantities distilled voluntarily over the last three wine years exceeded 10 % of the total production of these years.

In allocating these rights, Member States shall ensure as a matter of priority that the rights will meet the requirements of the specified areas in which plantings have been carried out over the three preceding wine years, using the replanting rights liberated by other production regions.

Should new planting rights be provided for as part of the reform, the planting rights mentioned in the fourth and fifth subparagraphs will be discounted.

Member States shall communicate to the Commission the provisions they adopt for the granting of authorisations, the list of the wines which have benefited and the corresponding areas.`2. in the third subparagraph of Article 16(5), 'between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 1998` shall be replaced by 'between 1 September 1998 and 31 August 1999`.

3. in Article 39:

- in the first and second subparagraphs of paragraph 10, '1997/98` shall be replaced by '1998/99`,

- in paragraph 11, '1997/98` shall be replaced by '1998/99`.

4. in Article 46(4), '1997/98` shall be replaced by '1998/99`.

5. in Article 65(5), '1 April 1998` shall be replaced by '1 April 1999` and '1 September 1998` by '1 September 1999`.

6. in Annex I, the third subparagraph of point 13 shall be replaced by the following:

'For the 1997/98 and 1998/99 wine years, table wines produced in France, Italy, Portugal and in the Spanish parts of winegrowing zones C other than the regions of Asturias, Baleares, Cantabria, Galicia, and the provinces of Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, and released for consumption respectively on the market in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain may have a total acidity content of not less than 3,5 grams per litre, expressed as tartaric acid`.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 September 1998.


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