Commission Regulation (EC) No 922/2005 of 17 June 2005 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2005-06-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, third country, viticulture

18.6.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 156/7

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 922/2005

of 17 June 2005

on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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), and in
particular Article 7 and Article 9(3) thereof,

licences with advance fixing of
a

No 883/2001, could be exceeded unless the issue of
the refund is
export
restricted. Therefore,
the
for
acceptance of applications submitted from 8 to 14
June 2005 should be applied and the submission of
applications and the issue of
licences suspended for
these zones until 1 July 2005,

single percentage

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(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 (2), 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 nego-
tiations.

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
the said
laid down or
Agreement.

the budget available under

On the basis of
information on export licence appli-
cations available to the Commission on 15 June 2005,
the quantity still available for the period until 30 June
2005, for destination zones (1) Africa and (4) western
Europe, referred to in Article 9(5) of Regulation (EC)

Export

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
wine-sector products
for which applications are submitted
from 8 to 14 June 2005 under Regulation (EC) No 883/2001
shall be issued in concurrence with 20,78 % of the quantities
requested for zone (1) Africa and shall be issued in concurrence
with 100,00 % of the quantities requested for zone (4) western
Europe.

The issue of export

licences for wine-sector products
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications
are
submitted from 15 June 2005 and the submission of export
licence applications from 17 June 2005 for destination zones
(1) Africa and (4) western Europe shall be suspended until
1 July 2005.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 June 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 June 2005.

For the Commission

J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 128, 10.5.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 908/2004 (OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 56).

(2) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as

(EC) No 1795/2003 (OJ

last amended by
L 262,

Commission Regulation
14.10.2003, p. 13).