Commission Regulation (EC) No 2224/2002 of 13 December 2002 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms
Date: 2002-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, alcohol, common organisation of markets, derogation from EU law, substitute fuel, viticulture

L 338/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

14.12.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2224/2002

of 13 December 2002

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with
regard to market mechanisms

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
in
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2585/2001 (2),
and in particular Article 33 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1795/2002 (4), and in
particular Article 93(6)
lays down that all
alcohol sold for use as bioethanol in the fuel sector must
be collected from storage no more than six months after
the date of notification of the Commission's decision to
award the sale.

thereof,

Commission Regulation (EC) No 774/2002 of 8 May
2002 opening public sales of wine alcohol for use as
in the European Community (5) opened a
bioethanol
public sale of 300 000 hectolitres of wine alcohol for
use as bioethanol
in the European Community to the
approved firm Ecocarburantes Españoles SA. On 18 June
2002, the Commission notified the competent author-
ities in Spain and Ecocarburantes Españoles SA of the
decision to award lot No 12/2002 to the firm.

(3)

(4)

(5)

By letter dated 21 October 2002, the Spanish Ministry
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food informed the Commis-
sion that, because of technical difficulties and the size of
lot No 12/2002,
laid down for the
the time limit
removal of the alcohol was insufficient.

In order to permit the firm concerned to complete the
operation, the time limit for the removal of the alcohol
should be increased by two months.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 93(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1623/
2000, the removal from storage of lot No 12/2002 referred to
in Regulation (EC) No 774/2002 and awarded on 18 June
2002 must be completed before 18 February 2003.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 13 December 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 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45.
(4) OJ L 272, 10.10.2002, p. 15.
(5) OJ L 123, 9.5.2002, p. 17.