31989R3615

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3615/89

of 1 December 1989

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3782/88 authorizing Germany and France not to apply in certain areas the measures provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 on the granting, for the 1989/90 to 1995/96 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 of 24 May 1988 on the granting, for the 1988/89 to 1995/96 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas (1), and in particular Article 12 (1) thereof,

Whereas, in accordance with Article 11a of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2729/88 of 31 August 1988 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 on the granting, for the 1988/89 to 1995/96 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 678/89 (3), before 1 October 1989 France submitted an amendment to the request for certain areas to be excluded from the scope of the measures provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 from the 1990/91 wine year; whereas that amendment falls within the categories justified in the previous request which resulted in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3782/88 (4), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1326/89 (5), authorizing Germany and France not to apply the measures provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1442/88 in certain areas; whereas the corrected wine-growing potential of those areas as a whole is less than 10 % of French national wine-growing potential;

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 Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3782/88 is hereby amended as follows:

'Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence' is added to the second indent of point 2.

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 from the 1990/91 wine year.

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

Done at Brussels, 1 December 1989.

For the Commission

Ray MAC SHARRY

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 132, 28. 5. 1988, p. 3.

(2) OJ No L 241, 1. 9. 1988, p. 108.

(3) OJ No L 73, 17. 3. 1989, p. 23.

(4) OJ No L 332, 3. 12. 1988, p. 25.

(5) OJ No L 133, 17. 5. 1989, p. 7.