Commission Regulation (EC) No 483/2006 of  23 March 2006  on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2006-03-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, viticulture

L 86/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.3.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 483/2006

of 23 March 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 22 March
2006, the quantity still available for the period until
30 April 2006,
(2)
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) western Europe,
Asia,

for destination zones (1) Africa,

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 appli-
cations submitted from 16 to 21 March 2006 should be
applied and the submission of applications and the issue
of licences suspended for this zone until 1 May 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 21 March 2006 under Regulation (EC)
No 883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 37,04 % of
the quantities requested for zone (1) Africa, in concurence with
27,93 % of
in
concurence with 33,51 % of the quantities requested for zone
(3) eastern Europe and in concurence with 38,22 % of the
quantities requested for zone (4) western Europe.

the quantities requested for zone (2) Asia,

The issue of export

for wine-sector products
licences
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
licence
from 22 March 2006 and the submission of export
applications from 24 March 2006 for destination zone (1)
Africa,
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) western Europe
shall be suspended until 1 May 2006.

(2) Asia,

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 March 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 March 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).