31983R2936

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2936/83

of 20 October 1983

amending Regulation (EEC) No 2541/83 on the application of the additional measures applicable to holders of long-term storage contracts for certain table wines for the 1982/83 wine-growing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 of 5 February 1979 on the common organization of the market in wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1595/83 (2), and in particular Article 12a (5) thereof,

Whereas, under Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) 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 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2405/83 (4), producers may, as from 1 September 1983, conclude only a limited number of storage contracts;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2541/83 (5) allows holders of long-term storage contracts concluded in respect of the 1982/83 wine-growing year in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3476/82 (6) to conclude one or more storage contracts for a period of four months in respect of a quantity of wine covered by long-term contracts which have expired;

Whereas the said long-term contracts were concluded prior to the entry into force of the provision limiting the number of contracts; whereas, in order to avoid any problems of an administrative nature, there should be a temporary derogation, as regards the application of Regulation (EEC) No 2541/83, from the rules limiting the number of storage contracts in respect of contracts concluded in accordance with Article 12a of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following paragraph is hereby added to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2541/83:

'By way of derogation from the first indent of Article 5 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83, the number of four-month storage contracts specified in the second indent of the first paragraph may be greater than two, provided it does not exceed the number of long-term storage contracts which the producer concerned holds and which have expired.'

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from 16 September 1983.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 October 1983.

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 48.

(3) OJ No L 116, 30. 4. 1983, p. 77.

(4) OJ No L 236, 28. 8. 1983, p. 12.

(5) OJ No L 250, 10. 9. 1983, p. 10.

(6) OJ No L 365, 24. 12. 1982, p. 38.