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1.12.62 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 2789/62

REGULATION No 143 OF THE COMMISSION

laying down initial provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC Whereas the methods of keeping the viticultural land COMMUNITY, register up to date will need to be defined later, having particular regard to the methods adopted for drawing up the register in the Member States ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Council Regulation No 24 on the progressive establishment of a common organisation Article 1 of the market in wine, and in particular Article 5 thereof; For the purposes of the preparation of the viticultural land register provided for in Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24 on the progressive establishment of Having regard to the Opinion of the Management a common organisation of the market in wine, any Committee for Wine; natural or legal person who cultivates vines in the open air or causes them to be so cultivated on his Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24 behalf is hereby required to submit to the authority provides that Member States shall prepare a appointed by Member States a signed declaration viticultural land register and lays down the minimum regarding his vineyard. information to be included therein; However no natural or legal person who cultivates or causes to be cultivated on his behalf, less than 10 ares Whereas, in view of the minor importance to the wine-growing economy of plantations with an area of vines in the open air, of which no part of the under vines of less than 10 ares, these need not be output in grapes, must or wine is sold directly or subject to the general census, provided that no part indirectly, shall be required to submit a declaration. of their output is sold; Article 2 Whereas, in the present state of development of the common wine policy, it is not essential to conduct a The declaration provided in Article 1 shall include census of vine plantations under glass, bearing in the following information : mind their negligible contribution to Community — the name and address of the vine grower and the output of wine ; whereas it is nevertheless useful to type of management; have, in respect of such plantations, the information listed in Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24; — the name and address of the landowner/s ;

— the total area of the plantation ; Whereas, on the other hand, in order to obtain adequate knowledge of wine-growing potential, the — the total area under vines subdivided according output of which affects the market, and to be in to : a position to implement on site any necessary ( a) nature of produce, measures, it is important to determine for each vine plantation the number of vineyard plots which it (b) type of cultivation, comprises and details enabling them to be identified ; (c) age of the vine-stocks, ( d ) year in which the different vine varieties were Whereas it is important to define the nature and planted; scope of the information listed in Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24; — number of vine plants per are;

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— number of vineyard plots in the plantation, the responsible for centralising the declarations and for area of each and details enabling them to be preparing a summary at national level of the identified. information required by Article 2.

As regards vines grown under glass, Member States Article 3 shall, by any appropriate method, collect the information mentioned in Article 1 of Council Regulation No 24. The terms used in the preceding Article shall mean the following : 2. For statistical purposes areas under mixed — nature of produce : cultivation shall be converted into areas under pure ( a) wine grapes, cultivation by means of the ratio between the average yields per hectare of the two types of cultivation (b) table grapes, applied to sufficiently uniform zones. (c) produce- from nurseries and root-stock parent vines ; Article 6 — type of cultivation : pure or mixed; This Regulation shall not invalidate any measures ;— vineyard plot : one continuous piece of land taken by Member States to provide a general carrying vines, worked by one and the same vineyard census including information additional to natural or legal person and constituting a distinct that required by Article 2, obtained, for example, entity as regards nature of produce and type of from wider categories of people than those laid down cultivation. in Article 1 , or from a mor,e detailed declaration of the characteristics of the vineyard or plantation. Article 4

Article 7 As regards the • classification of vineyard areas according to the age of vine-stocks the exact Procedures for communicating to the Commission indication of age may, in the case of vines more than the information obtained and the form in which it is three years old, be replaced by mentioning one of the to be communicated, together with measures for following age groups : keeping such information up to date, shall be 3 to 6 years, ' adopted in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 7 of Council Regulation No 24, on the. 6 to 10 years , basis of the methods chosen by Member States for 10 to 20 years, drawing up the viticultural land register.

20 to 30 years, Article 8 over 30 years.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and The same shall apply to the year , in which vine directly applicable in all Member States. varieties are planted.

Done at Brussels , 23 November 1962. Article 5 For the Commission 1 . Member States shall take all necessary measures The President to ensure that the declarations provided for in Article 1 are submitted and are correct. They shall be W. HALLSTEIN