Agricultural prices 1998/1999: wine, common organisation of the market COM (amend. regul. 822/87/EEC)

Agricultural prices 1998/99 - Wine (common organisation of the market). COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation (EC) 1627/98, amending regulation (EEC) 822/87. SUBSTANCE: The prohibition on new planting is extended to 31 August 2000. However, several Member States may authorise new planting during the next two marketing years, up to a total of 10 000 ha (Germany: 289, Greece: 208, Spain: 3615, France: 2584, Italy: 2442, Luxembourg: 4, Austria: 139, Portugal: 719). This authorisation may not be granted: - to wine from specified areas which have been the subject, over the last three wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums under Regulation (EEC) 1442/88; - to wine from administrative regions in which the total of the quantity distilled voluntarily over the last three years exceeded 10%of the total production of these years. For the 1998/1999 wine year, table wines produced in Austria, Greece, France, Italy and Portugal and in the Spanish parts of winegrowing zone C and released for consumption in these countries may not have a total acidity content of less than 3.5g per litre, expressed as tartaric acid. Certain accompanying measures and derogations have been extended for the 1998/99 marketing year. �