No L 309/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 15. 11. 88 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3531/88 of 14 November 1988 amending. Regulauon (EEC) No 2728/88 on the reduction of the buying-in price for wine as referred to 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 Councnl Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in wine (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2964/88 (3, and in particular Article 44 thereof, . Whereas the amount witheld when the buying-in-price for wine is reduced as provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2728/88 (%) is not justified for wine and categories of wine produced in a Member State not authorizing an increase in alcoholic strength; whereas that Regulation should be supplemented accordingly ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in- accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine, ~ : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article. 1 Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2728/88 is- hereby " amended as follows : 1. The following is added to the second subparagraph of paragraph 1: ‘wine and categories of wine in respect of which the Member States do not authorize or have not authorized an increase in alcoholic strength for the wine year in question.”; 2. paragraph 4 is deleted. Article 2 This Regulatloh shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1988. This Regulation shall be binding in its ennrety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brusséls, 14 November 1988. () OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1. 4 O] No L 269, 29. 9. 1988, p. 5. () OJ No L 241, 1. 9. 1988, p. 106. For the. Commission " Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President