Commission Regulation (EC) No 100/2006  19 January 2006  on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2006-01-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, viticulture

20.1.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 15/47

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 100/2006

19 January 2006

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,

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 (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 18 January
2006, the quantity still available for the period until
(2)
15 March 2006,

for destination zones (1) Africa,

Asia 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 16 to
17 January 2006 should be applied and the submission
of applications and the issue of licences suspended for
these zones until 16 March 2006,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Export

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
wine-sector products
for which applications are submitted
from 16 to 17 January 2006 under Regulation (EC)
No 883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 69,72 % of
the quantities requested for zone (1) Africa, in concurrence with
58,71 % of the quantities requested for zone (2) Asia and in
concurrence with 70,45 % of the quantities requested for zone
(3) eastern Europe.

The issue of export

for wine-sector products
licences
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 18 January 2006 and the submission of export licence
applications from 20 January 2006 for destination zones (1)
Africa, (2) Asia and (3) eastern Europe shall be suspended until
16 March 2006.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 January 2006.

For the Commission

J. L. DEMARTY
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 2079/2005 (OJ L 333, 20.12.2005, p. 6).

(2) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2165/2005 (OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 1).