No system is currently in force, but a law is being drafted.

1. Every publisher and importer of a book shall be obliged, pursuant to a statutory system of fixed book prices, to set and to publish a retail price for books they publish or import for the territory of the Member State.

More particularly, as far as French legislation is concerned – which Mr Rothley has mentioned – and as it was drafted at the time, in the judgement of 10 January 1995 on the Leclerc case, no. 229/83 “Au blé vert”, the Court of Justice decreed that, in the sphere of national legislation establishing a fixed book price system, rules which establish that the publisher’s fixed price must be observed, as regards the sale of books publis ...[+++]hed in the Member State itself, and which are reimported prior to export to another Member State, constitute measures with an effect equivalent to import restrictions, which are prohibited under Article 28 (ex Article 30) of the Treaty, unless there are well-grounded reasons to believe that the aforementioned books have been exported with the sole aim of reimporting them with the intention of evading the aforementioned law.

6. Distillers shall pay producers the prices fixed per % vol. of alcohol and per hectolitre under Article 29 or 30 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 for the wine delivered to them, such prices applying to bulk merchandise ex producer's premises.

Whereas the prices and amounts in ecus which are fixed with reference to the prices recorded on the market are either indirectly affected by the repercussions of the drop in other prices fixed in ecus, or directly linked to the world market situation; whereas in order to avoid undue reductions and to maintain the representativeness of these prices or amounts in relation to the market, they should not be considered as prices fixed in ecus within the me ...[+++]aning of Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1677/85, and the coefficient reducing agricultural prices should not be applied to those prices and amounts;

Whereas the prices fixed in ecus are to be divided by the coefficient reducing agricultural prices referred to in Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3578/88 of 17 November 1988 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system for the automatic dismantlement of negative monetary compensatory amounts (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 747/90 (4); whereas that coefficient should be fixed; whereas a similar adjustment is necessary for certain amounts fixed in ecus pursuant to Article 6 (4) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1677/85; w ...[+++]hereas, however, to avoid distortion of the market, account should be taken of the provisions of Community regulations regarding the calculation of the prices and the amounts in question;