COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 211/93 of 1 February 1993 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 1992 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 1993/94 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 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3615/89 (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 French 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:
'Côtes d'Auvergne' and 'Saint Pourçain' are added to the second indent of point 2.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from the 1993/94 wine year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 1 February 1993.