Commission Regulation (EC) No 2182/1999 of 14 October 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 on arrangements for issuing export licences for wine sector products and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3388/81 laying down special detailed rules in respect of import and export licences in the wine sector
Date: 1999-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, import licence, quantitative restriction, third country, viticulture

15. 10. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2182/1999

of 14 October 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 on arrangements for issuing export licences for wine sector
products and amending Regulation (EEC) No 3388/81 laying down special detailed rules in respect
of import and export licences in the wine sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

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 1677/1999 (2),
and in particular Articles 52(3) and 55(8) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

for

In the light of experience gained in recent wine years,
provision should be made to make it possible for special
measures taken by the Commission where applications
are submitted for abnormal quantities to be adjusted for
the category of product and the zone of destination.
Furthermore, since experience has also shown that some
speculative
lodged applications
operators have
reasons for quantities far exceeding their requirements
and as this practice is liable to damage operators who
apply only for the quantities they really need,
the
quantity that individual exporters can apply for should
be limited to the quantity available for each period as
referred to in Article 1a(1) of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1685/95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for
issuing export licences for wine sector products (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2098/1999 (4).
Certain other technical provisions of
the abovemen-
tioned Regulation should accordingly be amended, as
should Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3388/81 of 27
November 1981 laying down special detailed rules in
licences in the wine
respect of
sector (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1351/
97 (6).

import and export

(2)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Wine,

Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The following paragraph is added to Article 1a:

‘4.
Operators may make a single application per period
as referred to in Article 7(1)(a) and per zone of destination
as referred to in Article 3(4a). Applications may cover a
maximum of 30 000 hl.’

2. The following paragraph is added to Article 3:

‘4a
The measures provided for in paragraphs 3 and 4
may be adjusted for the category of products and the zone
of destination. Such zones of destination shall be as follows:
(3) Eastern Europe,
(1) Africa;
including the CIS countries; and (4) Western Europe.’

(2) Asia and Oceania;

3. The following sentence is added to Article 7(2):

‘Notifications as provided for in paragraph 1(a) to (d) must
also specify the zone of destination as referred to in Article
3(4a).’

Article 2

The last subparagraph of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3388/81 is hereby replaced by the following:

‘Section 7 of export licence applications and of licences
shall show the country of destination or the zone of des-
tination as referred to in Article 3(4a) of Regulation (EC)
No 1685/95. At the request of the party concerned, the
country of destination may be replaced by another country
belonging to the same zone of destination.’

(1) OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 199, 30.7.1999, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 161, 12.7.1995, p. 2.
(4) OJ L 257, 2.10.1999, p. 6.
(5) OJ L 341, 28.11.1981, p. 19.
(6) OJ L 186, 16.7.1997, p. 5.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 October 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 October 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission