Commission Regulation (EC) No 1574/2002 of 2 September 2002 amending Regulations (EC) No 883/2001 and (EC) No 2805/95 laying down, respectively, detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 as regards trade with third countries in products in the wine sector and the export refunds in the wine sector
Date: 2002-09-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, extra-EU trade, import licence, quality control of agricultural products, third country, viticulture, wine

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Official Journal of the European Communities

3.9.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1574/2002

of 2 September 2002

amending Regulations (EC) No 883/2001 and (EC) No 2805/95 laying down, respectively, detailed
rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 as regards trade with third countries
in products in the wine sector and the export refunds in the wine sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market
in
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2585/2001 (2),
and in particular Articles 63 and 64,

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2805/95 of 5 December
1995 fixing the export refunds in the wine sector and
repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2137/93 (7), as
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 755/2002 (8), have to
be amended.

(3)

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Trade agreements have recently been concluded between
the European Union and Estonia (3) and Lithuania (4),
inter alia, establishing certain concessions in the form of
tariff quotas for certain agricultural products and total
liberalisation of trade in other agricultural products. In
the wine sector, the elimination of refunds is one of
these concessions.

The authorities of Estonia and Lithuania have undertaken
to ensure
that only consignments of Community
products covered by the trade agreements on which no
refund has been granted are allowed for import into
those countries. To that end, Article 9(6) of 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 (5), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 812/2002 (6), and Article 1 of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 883/2001 concerning the list
of countries by zone of destination, as referred to in Article
9(6), is hereby replaced by Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2805/95 concerning the
other destination definition, is hereby replaced by Annex II to
this Regulation.

Article 3

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 July 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 September 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 10.
(3) OJ L 170, 29.6.2002, p. 15.
(4) OJ L 198, 27.7.2002, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 128, 10.5.2001, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 132, 17.5.2002, p. 14.

(7) OJ L 291, 6.12.1995, p. 10.
(8) OJ L 116, 3.5.2002, p. 3.

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX IV

List of countries by zone of destination, as referred to in Article 9(6)

Zone 1: Africa

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

Zone 2: Asia and Australasia

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

Zone 3: Eastern Europe and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States

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

Zone 4: Western Europe

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

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ANNEX II

‘ANNEX

to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1574/2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 2805/95 fixing the export refunds
in the wine sector

Product code

Destination

Unit of measurement

Amount of refund

2009 69 11 9100

2009 69 19 9100

2009 69 51 9100

2009 69 71 9100

2204 30 92 9100

2204 30 94 9100

2204 30 96 9100

2204 30 98 9100

2204 21 79 9100

2204 21 79 9100

2204 21 80 9100

2204 21 80 9100

2204 21 83 9100

2204 21 83 9100

2204 21 84 9100

2204 21 84 9100

2204 21 79 9200

2204 21 79 9200

2204 21 80 9200

2204 21 80 9200

W01

W01

W01

W01

W01

W01

W01

W01

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

2204 21 79 9910

W02 et W03

2204 21 94 9910

W02 et W03

2204 21 98 9910

W02 et W03

2204 29 62 9100

2204 29 62 9100

2204 29 64 9100

2204 29 64 9100

2204 29 65 9100

2204 29 65 9100

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

39,023

39,023

39,023

39,023

39,023

10,339

39,023

10,339

5,358

5,358

6,473

6,473

7,317

7,317

8,842

8,842

6,271

6,271

7,578

7,578

3,771

14,250

14,250

5,358

5,358

5,358

5,358

5,358

5,358

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Product code

Destination

Unit of measurement

Amount of refund

2204 29 71 9100

2204 29 71 9100

2204 29 72 9100

2204 29 72 9100

2204 29 75 9100

2204 29 75 9100

2204 29 62 9200

2204 29 62 9200

2204 29 64 9200

2204 29 64 9200

2204 29 65 9200

2204 29 65 9200

2204 29 71 9200

2204 29 71 9200

2204 29 72 9200

2204 29 72 9200

2204 29 75 9200

2204 29 75 9200

2204 29 83 9100

2204 29 83 9100

2204 29 84 9100

2204 29 84 9100

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

W02

W03

2204 29 62 9910

W02 et W03

2204 29 64 9910

W02 et W03

2204 29 65 9910

W02 et W03

2204 29 94 9910

W02 et W03

2204 29 98 9910

W02 et W03

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

EUR/hl

6,473

6,473

6,473

6,473

6,473

6,473

6,271

6,271

6,271

6,271

6,271

6,271

7,578

7,578

7,578

7,578

7,578

7,578

7,317

7,317

8,842

8,842

3,771

3,771

3,771

14,250

14,250

NB: The product codes and the “A” series destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 (OJ

L 366, 24.12.1987, p. 1) as amended.
The numeric destination codes are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2032/2000 (OJ L 243, 28.9.2000,
p. 14).

The other destinations are defined as follows:
W01: Libya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab emirates, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines, China, Hong Kong SAR, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Equatorial
Guinea,

W02: all countries of the African continent with the exception of: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa,
W03: all destinations, with the exception of: Africa, America, Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Israel,
the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Lithuania.’