No L 377/20 Official Journal of the Eﬁropean Communities 31. 12. 87 COMMISSION REGULATION: (EEC) No 3992/87 of 23 December 1987 amending Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 on the common organization of the market ‘in THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European. Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3985/87 (?), and in particular Article 13 thereof, Whereas Council Regulation . (EEC) No 2658/87 establishes, with effect from 1 January 1988, a combined goods nomenclature based on the Harmonized System which will meet the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and the nomenclature of goods for the external trade statistics of the Community; Whereas, as a consequence, it is necessary to express the descriptions of goods and tariff heading numbers which appear in Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in the sector of wine (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3146/87 (*) according to the terms of the combined nomenclature; whereas these adaptations do not call for any amendment of substance, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 is modified as follows: 1. The 57th paragraph of the recitals, on page six of the Regulation, is replaced by the following: ‘Whereas it has become necessary, in order to achieve a more stable balance between production and utilization, to increase the utilization of the vine products; whereas intervention appears to be justified further back than the table wine production stage, by encouraging the use of must for purposes other than wine-making, and in particular the manufacture of grape juice and the manufacture, traditionally carried out in the United Kingdom and in Ireland, of certain products falling within the combined nomenclature subheading 2206 00, since at present some relatively substantial outlets could be made available through such uses;’ (1) O] NOL 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. (2) OJ No L 376, 31. 12. 1987, p. 1. (*) O] No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1. (4) OJ No L 300, 23. 10. 1987, p. 4. 2. The 60th paragraph of the recitals, on page six of the Regulation, is replaced by the following: ‘“Whereas the industry using some of these products which fall within the combined nomenclature-heading- No 2206 00 requires must with a very high natural sugar- content which is traditionally produced in southern wine-growing regions; whereas, in order to enable users to continue employing a raw material suited to their needs, aid should be restricted to must from those regions of the Community which are best placed to satisfy the aforementioned qualitative requirements; whereas, however, this action must not give rise to- distortion of competition;’ 3. The 78th paragraph of the recitals, page seven of the Regulation, is replaced by the following: ‘Whereas in the light of experience it appears that the fermentation of grape juice and concentrated grape juice should be prohibited except for the purpose of obtaining certain products falling within the combined nomenclature subheading 2206 00; whereas the entry into free circulation of wine suitable for yielding table wine which does not have the minimum actual alcoholic strength for table wine should, for the same reason, also be prohibited;’ 4. Article 1 (2) is replaced by the following: 2. It shall apply to the following products: CN code Description (a) 2009 60 Grape juice (including grape must) Other grape must, other than 2204 3091 those in fermentation or with 2204 30 99 fermentation arrested otherwise than by the addition of alcohol (b) ex 2204 Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must be other than that of heading No 2009, excluding other grape must of subheadings 22043091 and 2204 30 99 () 08061091 } Fresh grapes other than table 0806 10 99 grapes 2209 00 11 Wine vincar 2209 00 19 e vineg (d) 2206 00 10 Piquette 2307 00 11 . 2307 00 19 } Wine lees 2308 90 11 1 G s 23089019 | | Grapemarc