13. 9. 89 Official Journal of the European‘ Communities No L 266/21 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2753/89 of 12 September 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83 on storage contracts for table wine, grape must, concentrated grape must and rectified concentrated grape must 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 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1236/89 (3), and in particular Articles 32 (5), 33-(5) and 42 (5) thereof, Whereas experience in the application of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1059/83 (3, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3500/88 (%), points to the need to specify the characteristics that products covered by a contract must show at the time of conclusion of the contract and during the storage period ; whereas this will entail the need to adapt the procedure laid down for cases where the necessary conditions during the storage period are no longer met; Whereas in order to ensure that the products which are the subject of storage contracts are those derived from the production of the person concluding the contract, the quantity which may be the subject of.a storage contract should be restricted to that produced by the producer in - the wine year .in question ;. Whereas the method for checking the absence of hybrids should be specified ; Whereas it might be appropriate to restrict the conclusion of contracts to a single category of wine in order to raise the quality of the wine put on the market after the storage period ; Whereas allowance - must be made for the - volume variations caused by the oenological treatment required during the storage period; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance . with. the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine, . () OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 128, 11. 5. 1989, p. 31. () OJ No L 116, 30. 4. 1983, p. 77. () OJ No L 306, 11. 11. 1988, p. 36. HAS ADOPTED. THIS REGULATION : - Article 1 1 Regulation - (EEC) No 1059/83 is hereby amended as follows : 1.::in the first subparagraph of Article 4 (3) point (c) reads : ‘(c) the absence . of hybrids, in the case of red products, by analysis for malvidol ‘diglucoside.” ;. 2. in the second subparagraph of Article 4 (3): (a) point (g) reads: ‘(g) volatile acidity, expressed in grams of acetic acid per litre or in milliequivalents per litre’; (b) the following point (ja) is added : ‘(ia) the reducing sugar content’; 3. the following paragaph is added to Article -5: ‘3. 'The total quantity for which a producer concludes a storage contracta may not be greater than that indicated for the wine-growing year in question in the production declaration submitted in- -~ accordance with Commission -Regulation (EEC) No 3929/87 (*) plus the quantities produced by him after the date of submission of the declaration, as shown . by the records specified in Article 14 of Commission - Regulation (EEC) No 1153/75(™). () OJ No L 369, 29. 12. 1987, p. 59.- (") OJ No L 113, 1. 5. 1975, p. 1.’; 4. Article 6 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 6 1. For the purposes of this Regulation table wines may be divided into two categories, determined each year -on the basis of the quality of the harvest. The procedure provided for in Article 83 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 shall be used. 2. A contract for table wine may not be concluded before the date of its first racking. 3. When a contract-is concluded - — table wines — except for those of types R III, A IT and A III, must not have an actual alcoholic strength of less than 10 % vol,