Commission regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms

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31.7.2000 EN L 194/45Official Journal of the European Communities COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1623/2000 of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, juice or other comestible products made with this juice.

The aid should accordingly be granted to the users of the raw materials, i.e. the processors.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on (7) It should be stipulated that the aid is granted only forthe common organisation of the market in wine(1), and in raw materials with the quality characteristics requiredparticular Articles 24, 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 80 thereof, for processing into grape juice. It should accordingly be specified in particular that the grapes and grape must Whereas: covered by a statement must have a density at 20 °C of between 1.055 and 1.100 grams per cubic centimetre.

(1) Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 lays down general rules on market mechanisms and refers for the rest to detailed implementing rules to be adopted by the (8) Application of the aid scheme calls for an administrativeCommission.

system to monitor both the origin of products eligible for the aid and their intended use.

(2) Until now, those rules have been contained in a large number of Community regulations. In the interests of both economic operators in the Community and the authorities responsible for applying Community rules, (9) To ensure that the aid scheme and the checks operate all these provisions should be brought together in a properly, the processors concerned should be required to single Regulation. submit a written statement containing the information needed to enable the operations to be monitored.

(3) This Regulation must include the current rules and adapt them to the new requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999. They must also be simplified and made more coherent and certain gaps must be filled in to (10) However, to avoid excessive administration for both the ensure that the Community rules in this area are processors and the authorities concerned, no prior complete. In addition, some rules should be made more written statement should be required from processors specific to ensure greater legal certainty when they are using only a small quantity of grapes or grape must each applied. wine year. That quantity should be fixed. The processors concerned must nevertheless inform the competent authorities of their Member State at the beginning of (4) Article 35(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 intro- each wine year of their intention to process a certain duces an aid scheme for the use of grape must and quantity of grapes or grape must.

concentrated grape must made from grapes produced in the Community for the purpose of manufacturing grape juice or other comestible products made with this juice.

(11) When the processor is not the user of the product concerned, particularly where the inspecting authority(5) Such other comestible products should be specified.

concerned is in a different Member State than the processor, it is not always easy for that authority to know whether a statement relates to grape must which(6) The economic aim of the aid scheme is to encourage the use of raw materials of Community origin rather than has not received aid under this Regulation or to grape juice for which an aid application has already beenimported raw materials in the manufacture of grape submitted. The transport document accompanying the product concerned should therefore indicate whether an aid application has been submitted.(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.

L 194/46 EN 31.7.2000Official Journal of the European Communities (12) In order for the aid scheme to significantly increase the (20) Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 introduces an aid scheme for concentrated must and rectifieduse of Community raw materials, it should be stipulated that aid applications must be submitted for a fixed concentrated must produced in the Community and used to increase the alcoholic strength of wines.minimum quantity for each product.

(13) Under Article 35(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, (21) Under Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, part of the aid is to be used to organise campaigns to detailed rules may be laid down, in particular to stipulate promote the consumption of grape juice. The percentage the conditions for granting the aid. On that basis, rules of the aid earmarked for this purpose should be sufficient should be laid down for applying the measure in the to generate adequate funds to finance effective procase of small producers. It should also be stipulated that motion campaigns.

only producers who have fulfilled their Community obligations during a specified period are to be eligible under this measure.

(14) Processing i...

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