Commission Regulation (EC) No 1593/1999 of 20 July 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/98 determining the Member States in which the campaigns to promote the consumption of grape juice may be carried out in respect of the 1997/98 wine year
Date: 1999-07-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: consumption, fruit juice, grape, marketing year, sales promotion

L 188/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

21. 7. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1593/1999

of 20 July 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 1893/98 determining the Member States in which the campaigns to
promote the consumption of grape juice may be carried out in respect of the 1997/98 wine year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16
March 1987 on the common organisation of the market in
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1627/98 (2),
and in particular Article 46(5) and Article 81 thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No
1103/97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating
to the introduction of the euro (3) provides that every
to the ecu is to be
instrument
reference in a legal
replaced by a reference to the euro at a rate of one euro
to one ecu; whereas, as a result, amounts expressed in
euro are to be converted into national currency at the
rate laid down by the Council;

(2) Whereas

for

the
stipulation of an operative event
amounts concerned has created legitimate expectations
for the operators and Member States concerned; whereas
application of the fixed rate for converting amounts laid
down in Commission Decisions would lead to a reduc-
tion as compared with the amounts provided for in
September 1998;

(3) Whereas this problem may be solved by increasing the
overall amounts for the Member States from 1 January
1999 to offset
the reduction in national currency
resulting from the introduction of the euro;

(4) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1893/98 (4)

should therefore be amended to that effect;

(5) Whereas Articles 2 to 4 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 481/1999 of 4 March 1999 laying down general
rules for the management of promotional programmes

for certain agricultural products (5) contain provisions
governing the time limits for the conclusion of contracts
and payments; whereas, as a result, Article 1(2) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1893/98 should be deleted;

(6) 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 (EC) No 1893/98 is amended as
follows:

1. the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 is replaced by the

following:

‘The total amount for financing those campaigns shall be:
— EUR 2 231 592 in Germany,
— EUR
— EUR 1 618 736 in Spain,
— EUR 1 835 154 in France,
— EUR

710 234 in the Netherlands.’;

710 038 in Austria,

2. the second and third paragraphs are deleted.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January 1999.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 20 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 245, 4.9.1998, p. 34.

(5) OJ L 57, 5.3.1999, p. 8.