Commission Regulation (EC) No 1337/2005 of 12 August 2005 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2005-08-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, viticulture

13.8.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 211/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1337/2005

of 12 August 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

(EC) No 883/2001, could be exceeded unless the issue of
the refund is
export
restricted. Therefore,
the
for
submitted from 3 to 9
acceptance of applications
August 2005 should be applied and the submission of
applications and the issue of licences suspended for this
zone until 16 September 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 10 August
2005, the quantity still available for the period until
31 August 2005, for destination zones (2) Asia and (4)
eastern Europe, referred to in Article 9(5) of Regulation

to

Export

9 August

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
for which applications are submitted
wine-sector products
(EC)
2005
from 3
No 883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 100,00 %
of the quantities requested for zone (2) Asia and in concurrence
with 100,00 % of the quantities requested for zone (4) eastern
Europe.

under Regulation

The issue of export

licences for wine-sector products
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications
are
submitted from 10 August 2005 and the submission of
export licence applications from 13 August 2005 for desti-
nation zones
(2) Asia and (4) eastern Europe shall be
suspended until 16 September 2005.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 August 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 12 August 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).