Commission Regulation (EC) No 120/2003 of 23 January 2003 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2003-01-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, export licence, export refund, viticulture

24.1.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 20/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 120/2003

of 23 January 2003

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 2380/2002 (2), and in parti-
cular 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 22 January 2003,
the quantity still available for the period until 15 March
2003, 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 15 to 21 January 2003
should be applied and the submission of applications
and the issue of licences suspended for these zones until
16 March 2003,

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
15 to 21 January 2003 under Regulation (EC) No 883/2001
shall be issued for 100,00 % of the quantities requested for
zone 1: Africa and issued in concurrence with 8,00 % of the
quantities requested for zone 3: eastern Europe.

The issue of export

2.
licences for wine-sector products
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 22 January 2003 and the submission of export licence
applications from 24 January 2003 for destination zones 1:
Africa and 3: eastern Europe shall be suspended until 16 March
2003.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 January 2003.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 23 January 2003.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Agriculture Director-General

(1) OJ L 128, 10.5.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 117.
(3) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 10.