Commission Regulation (EC) No 2739/1999 of 21 December 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3388/81 laying down special detailed rules in respect of import and export licences in the wine sector and Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 on arrangements for issuing export licences for wine sector products
Date: 1999-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, import licence, quantitative restriction, third country, viticulture

L 328/60

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

22. 12. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2739/1999

of 21 December 1999

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

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

Whereas:

(1)

in the light of experience gained in the first months of
the new arrangements for export licence applications
and for issuing export licences, there is a need to clarify
certain provisions governing the application procedure
for export licences and to specify the individual coun-
tries belonging to the various zones of destination for
which applications may be submitted. The information
required on export licences in respect of destination
must also be specified. Certain provisions of Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2182/1999 (4), and Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 3388/81 (5), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2182/1999, must
therefore be
amended;

(2)

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

applications related to the same zone of destination must be
lodged with the competent authority in a single notification.

Where the overall quantity applied for by an operator
exceeds 30 000 hl for a given zone, the applications in
question shall be rejected by the competent authority with
whom they have been lodged.’

2. The following sentence is added to Article 3(4a):

‘The list of countries constituting each zone of destination is
given in Annex III.’

3. The Annex to this Regulation is inserted as Annex III.

Article 2

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

‘Section 7 of export licence applications and of licences
shall show the country of destination or the zone of desti-
nation as referred to in Article 3(4a) of Regulation (EC) No
1685/95.

Where the zone of destination is indicated,
“compulsory: yes” must be ticked.

the box

Where the country of destination is indicated, the box
“compulsory: no” must be ticked. Export licence applica-
tions and licences must also contain the words “zone X
compulsory” in Section 20. At the request of the party
concerned, the country of destination may be replaced by
another country belonging to the same zone of destina-
tion.’

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

1. Article 1a(4) is replaced by the following:

Article 3

‘4.
Operators may submit applications for no more than
30 000 hl per period as referred to in Article 7(1)(a) and
per zone of destination as referred to in Article 3(4a). The

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(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 267, 15.10.1999, p. 21.
(5) OJ L 341, 28.11.1981, p. 19.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX III

ZONES OF DESTINATION: LIST OF COUNTRIES

Zone 1: Africa

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, The Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of
the Congo), Congo (Republic of the Congo), Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mauritania,
Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Saint Helena and Dependen-
cies, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles and Dependencies, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Chad, British Indian Ocean Territory, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Zone 2: Asia and Oceania

Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, West Bank/Gaza Strip, North Korea,
South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands,
Solomon Islands, Wallis and Futuna, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Macao,
Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia and Dependencies, New Zealand, American Pacific
Territories, Australian Pacific Territories, New Zealand Pacific Territories, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea,
Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, French Polynesia, Qatar, Samoa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu,
Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen.

Zone 3: Eastern Europe and the CIS countries

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Uzbekistan,
Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.

Zone 4: Western Europe

Andorra, Ceuta and Melilla, Vatican City, Gibraltar, Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Norway, San Marino.’