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19.3.64 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES . 753/64

REGULATION No 26/64/EEC OF THE COMMISSION

of 28 February 1964

laying down additional provisions for the preparation of the viticultural land register, for its management and for keeping it up to date

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC necessary for such particulars to be covered by the COMMUNITY , sample surveys ;

Whereas Regulation No 143 made special provisions Having regard to the Treaty establishing the for vines cultivated under glass; European Economic Community ;

Whereas, in view of the need to ensure that the Having regard to Regulation No 24 on the results of the sample surveys are comparable, the progressive establishment of a common organisation methods by which the statistical inquiries are of the market in wine,1 and in particular Article 5 conducted should be decided by the Commission ; thereof;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Having regard to Commission Regulation No 143 are in accordance with the Opinion of the laying down initial provisions for the preparation of Management Committee for Wine ; the viticultural land register,2 and in particular Article 7 thereof;

Whereas, to obtain more technical information HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : concerning the viticultural land register, it is necessary that the information to be provided in Article 1 application of Regulation No 143 should be supplemented and defined in further detail and that some particulars should be provided in respect of The following shall be substituted for Article 2 of each vineyard plot ; Regulation No 143 :

Whereas the information to be sent to the 'The declaration provided for in Article 1 shall Commission should be correlated by administrative include the following particulars : unit for each of the Member States and should be provided in a comparable form; ( 1 ) In respect of the vineyard :

— the name and address of the vine grower Whereas, on account of the large quantity of and the kind of management (by the owner information obtained , provision should be made for himself or by others on his behalf, tenancy, the viticultural land register to be kept up to date by other methods including the payment of statistical inquiries based on sample surveys ; whereas rent in kind); this method, which is sufficiently accurate, should be accompanied by a complete revision of the — the name and address of the landowners ; viticultural land register at regular intervals ; — the total area of the vineyard ;

Whereas, since changes in certain particulars included — the agricultural area worked ; in the viticultural land register have no short-term — the total area under vines subdivided ac ­ economic effect, it does not seem to be strictly cording to :

( a) nature of produce, 1 OJ No 30 , 20.4.1962, p . 989/62 . • 2 OJ No 127, 1.12.1962 , p . 2789/62 . ( b ) type of cultivation,

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(c) age of vine-stocks per vine variety ; — the nature of produce;

— the number of plots in the vineyard, the — the selection of vine varieties ; area of each and details enabling them to — the type of cultivation . be identified .

Member States shall, within eight months of carrying (2) In respect of each vineyard plot: out these surveys, inform the Commission of the (a) nature of produce, results .

(b) type of cultivation,

(c) vine varieties and the area taken up by Article 4 each subdivided according to the age of the vine-stocks, In the case of vines grown under glass, Member ( d ) number of vine-stocks per are, States shall communicate to the Commission only the following particulars : (e) distance between them, ( a) total, area under vines, (f) position, (b) areas under vines according to nature of produce, (g) kind of management, i.e. by the owner (c) type of vineyard management, himself or by others on his behalf, tenancy, other methods including the pay ­ (d) classification of vineyards according to area, ment of rent in kind.' (e) classification of vineyard areas according to the age of the vine-stocks, Article 2 (f) selection of vine varieties according to the year of planting. 1 . As soon as the viticultural land register is prepared, and not later than 30 June 1965 , Member States shall communicate to the Commission the These particulars shall be communicated to the following information : Commission before 30 June 1965 .

— the number of vine plantations ; They shall be kept up to date :

— the total area of such plantations ; — by a general census every ten years of vines grown under glass, the first to be taken in 1976; — the total area under vines subdivided according — in the meantime by biennial statistical sample to : surveys of the total area under vines and the areas (a) nature of produce, planted with the different vine varieties . (b ) type of cultivation. The Member States shall, within three months of 2 . Not later than 30 September 1966, Member carrying out these surveys, inform the Commission of States shall communicate to the Commission in the the results . form of comparable tables the information listed in the Annex to this Regulation . Article 5 Article 3 The information to be communicated to the Commission by the Member States in accordance The viticultural land register shall be kept up to date : with the provisions of Articles 2 and 4 shall be — by means of a complete revision every ten years, supplied on the basis of the following administrative beginning in 1976; units :

— and in the meantime by yearly statistical sample — the Regierungsbezirk in the Federal Republic of surveys . Germany, — the department in the French Republic, Such statistical sample surveys shall cover the areas under vines indicating any new planting and — the province in the Italian Republic, grubbing of vines, in relation to : — the entire national territory in the other Member — the position ; States .

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Article 6 s statistical sample surveys referred to in Articles 3 and . . . „ , , . , . , . 4 and the form in which the results of such surveys The Commission shall, after consulting the Member are m be communicated t0 it. States, adopt the procedures for carrying out the

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

Done at Brussels, 28 February 1964. For the Commission

The President

Walter HALLSTEIN

ANNEX

Information covered by the tables referred to in Article 2

Table 1 Table 7 Number of vine plantations and total area under vines, In respect of plantations producing wine grapes and those subdivided according to the size of the areas under vines producing table grapes, and of those producing both wine in the vine plantations, the kind of management, the type grapes and table grapes, the number of vineyard plots and of cultivation, nature of produce and the number of their total area subdivided according to position, but not vineyard plots per plantation. according to category of size.

Table 2 Table 8 Number of vineyard plots and the area of each , subdivided In respect of plantations producing wine grapes and those by categories of size of the vineyard plots, into the type of producing table grapes, and of those producing both wine cultivation, nature of produce, the position and the number grapes and table grapes, the areas under vines for each of vine stocks per are. type of cultivation, subdivided according to age groups of vine-stocks but not according to categories of size. Table 3 List of vine varieties subdivided according to nature of The categories of size referred to in the preceding tables produce and age group, and showing the areas which they are the following : cover. \ — in respect of agricultural areas worked belonging to Table 4 vine plantations : under 0-5 ha, 0-5-1 ha, 1-2 ha, 2-5 ha , 5-10 ha , 10-20 ha, 20-50 ha, 50-100 ha , 100 ha and Number of vine plantations, their total area under vines, over ; the number of vineyard plots in each size category of the areas under vines in the vine plantation, subdivided into — in respect of areas of vine plantations under vines : under size categories of the agricultural areas worked. 0-10 ha, 0- 10-0*25 ha, 0-25-0-50 ha, 0-15-1 ha, 1-2 ha, 2-5 ha, 5-10 ha, 10-20 ha, 20-30 ha, 30 ha and over ; Table 5 — in respect of vineyard plots : under 0-05 ha, 0-05-0-10 ha , Number of vine plantations, their total area under vines 0-10-0-25 ha, 0-25-0-50 ha, 0-50-1 ha, 1-2 ha , 2-5 ha , and the number of vineyard plots, in respect of plantations 5 ha and over ; producing wine grapes, plantations producing table grapes, and plantations producing both wine grapes and table — in respect of the number of vine-stocks per are : grapes, in terms of categories of size of the areas under vines in the vine plantations. A. Pure cultivation : under 20, 20-40, 40-70, 70-100 , 100 and over. Table 6 B. Mixed cultivation with vines as the predominant In respect of plantations producing wine grapes and those crop : under 10, 10-20, 20-40, 40-70, 70 and over. producing table grapes, and of those producing both wine C. Mixed cultivation with - vines as secondary crop : grapes and table grapes, the number of vineyard plots and under 5 , 5-10, 10-20, 20-40, 40 and over. the area under vines for each type of cultivation, subdivided according to the kind of management, but not according — in respect of the number of vineyard plots : 1 , 2-3 , to categories of size. 4-5-6, 7-8-9-10, 11 and over.

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