Commission Regulation (EC) No 1209/2002 of 4 July 2002 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2002-07-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, export, export licence, viticulture

L 176/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

5.7.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1209/2002

of 4 July 2002

on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 883/2001 of
24 April 2001, laying down detailed rules for implementing
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 as regards trade with
third countries in products in the wine sector (1), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 812/2002 (2), and in particular
Article 7 and Article 9(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 63(7) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999
of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the
market in wine (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2585/2001 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for
wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure
contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotia-
tions.

Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2001 lays down the
conditions under which the Commission may take
specific measures to prevent an overrun of the quantity
laid down or the budget available under the said Agree-
ment.

On the basis of information on export licence applica-
tions available to the Commission on 3 July 2002, the
quantity still available for the period until 31 August
2002, for destination zones 1: Africa and 3: eastern

Europe, referred to in Article 9(5) of Regulation (EC) No
883/2001, could be exceeded unless the issue of export
licences with advance fixing of the refund is restricted.
Therefore, a single percentage for the acceptance of
applications submitted from 26 June to 2 July 2002
should be applied and the submission of applications
and the issue of licences suspended for these zones until
16 September 2002,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
Export licences with advance fixing of the refund for
wine-sector products for which applications are submitted from
26 June to 2 July 2002 under Regulation (EC) No 883/2001
shall be issued for 18,300 % of the quantities requested for
zone 1: Africa and issued in concurrence with 6,687 % of the
quantities requested for zone 3: eastern Europe.

The issue of export

licences for wine-sector products
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 3 July 2002 and the submission of export licence applica-
tions from 5 July 2002 for destination zones 1: Africa and 3:
eastern Europe shall be suspended until 16 September 2002.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 July 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 July 2002.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 128, 10.5.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 132, 17.5.2002, p. 14.
(3) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 10.