Commission Regulation (EC) No 689/2006 of  4 May 2006  on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2006-05-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, viticulture

5.5.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 120/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 689/2006

of 4 May 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:

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 1 to 2 May 2006 should be
applied and the submission of applications and the
issue of licences suspended for this zone until 1 July
2006,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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 3 May 2006,
the period until
the
30 June 2006,
(2)
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) western Europe,
Asia,

for
for destination zones (1) Africa,

available

quantity

still

to

Export

2 May

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
for which applications are submitted
wine-sector products
from 1
(EC)
2006
No 883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 16,20 % of
the quantities requested for zone (1) Africa, in concurence with
16,81 % of
in
concurence with 18,36 % of the quantities requested for zone
(3) eastern Europe and in concurence with 14,54 % of the
quantities requested for zone (4) western Europe.

the quantities requested for zone (2) Asia,

Regulation

under

The issue of export

for wine-sector products
licences
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 3 May 2006 and the submission of export licence appli-
cations from 5 May 2006 for destination zone (1) Africa, (2)
Asia,
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) western Europe shall be
suspended until 1 July 2006.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 May 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 May 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).