No L 213/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 4. 8. 87 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2351/87 of 31 July 1987 reducing the buying-in price for wine for the 1987/88 wine year as provided for in Article 44 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 : THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in wine ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1972/87 (%), and in particular Articles 44 and 81 thereof, Whereas within the meaning of Article 44 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87, in respect of certain types of distilla- tion, provision should be made for a reduction in the buying-in price to be paid to producers who have brought about an increase in alcoholic strength by adding sucrose or concentrated grape must for which an application for the aid provided for in Article 45 of that Regulation has been made or which has benefited from that aid ; whereas that reduction must correspond to the economic advan- tage thus obtained ; Whereas, although a method of analysis to detect whether the alcoholic strength of a given batch of wine has been increased through one of the abovementioned practices has recently been perfected, that method is still not yet operational throughout the Community ; whereas, more- -over, it is very difficult to establish by how much the alco- holic strength of wine delivered for distillation has been increased by each producer; whereas, accordingly, the economic advantage to each producer may be determined accurately only at the cost of an excessive administrative burden likely to delay the payment of aid and to jeopar- dize intervention measures as a whole; whereas that advantage should therefore be determined on a flat-rate basis ; Whereas experience in previous wine years has shown that the system of reducing the buying-in price of wine delivered for distillation on the basis of fixing a maximum natural alcoholic strength has not provided the results anticipated ; whereas, therefore, in order to ensure that the buying-in price is reduced in proportion to the economic advantage obtained from increasing the alco- holic strength, it should be reduced in line with the average increase in the natural alcoholic strength in each wine-growing zone and should vary with the minimum price laid down for each type of distillation ; whereas, to () OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 184, 3. 7. 1987, p. 26. avoid the excessive administrative burden which systema- tically monitoring all producers to check the increase in alcoholic strength would entail, provision must be made for a flat-rate reduction in the buying-in price for wine delivered for each type of distillation within each zone or part thereof ; Whereas it is fair to provide that producers who have not brought about an increase in the alcoholic strength of their wine by adding sucrose or concentrated grape must having benefited from the aid provided for in Article 45 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 in respect of any part of their table wine production may received the full price ; Whereas, in addition, provision should be made for producers who have made use of that process only for a . part of their production which is less than the quantity which they deliver for distillation may receive the full price for a quantity corresponding to the difference between the quantity delivered and the quantity enri- ched ; whereas, however, while it is possible to determine the quantities of wine the alcoholic strength of which has been increased with concentrated must, at the cost of a heavy administrative burden in checking aid application files, the results are uncertain where the alcoholic strength is increased using sucrose ; whereas, accordingly, provision should be made for the full price to be paid only where the production conditions and administrative structures so permit ; Whereas the reduction in the buying-in price applies to all producers who have increased the alcoholic strength of their table wine production by means of the said process and who deliver wine for the types of distillation in ques- tion ; whereas, consequently, and taking into account the economic advantage from which they benefit, provision must be made for producers who have thus increased the alcoholic strength of their table wine production and who make use of the possibility provided for in the first subpa- ragraph of Article 12 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 854/86 of 24 March 1986 laying down detailed rules for applying compulsory distillation as referred to in Article 39 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1410/87 (*), to pay the intervention agency, for the quantity of wine which they have delivered, an amount equal to the reduction laid down for compulsory distillation ; () OJ No L 80, 25. 3. 1986, p. 14. (9 OJ No L 135, 23. 5. 1987, p. 11.