Commission Regulation (EC) No 1193/2006 of  4 August 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 1990/2004 laying down transitional measures in the wine sector by reason of the accession of Hungary to the European Union
Date: 2006-08-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Hungary, common organisation of markets, derogation from EU law, distillation, transitional period (EU), viticulture

L 215/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

5.8.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1193/2006

of 4 August 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1990/2004 laying down transitional measures in the wine sector by
reason of the accession of Hungary to the European Union

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first paragraph of
Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Under Article 27(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organi-
sation of the market in wine (1), any natural or legal
person or group of persons having made wine is
required to deliver for distillation all the by-products of
that wine-making.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 of 25 July
2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regu-
lation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation
in wine with regard to market
of
mechanisms (2) establishes the rules applicable to such
distillation and Article 49 thereof provides for certain
exceptions to that obligation.

the market

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Hungary has adopted the measures needed to implement
this distillation obligation. However, distilleries
in
Hungary do not currently have sufficient capacity to
distil all by-products.

(EC) No

Regulation

1990/2004 (3)
Commission
authorises Hungary to exempt certain categories of
producers from the obligation to distil by-products of
wine-making for the 2004/05 wine year. This authori-
sation has been extended to cover the 2005/06 wine
year.
that
authorisation should be extended once again to cover
the 2006/07 marketing year.

the situation described above,

In view of

Regulation (EC) No 1990/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

the
In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1990/2004,
2004/2005 and 2005/06 marketing years’ is replaced by ‘for
the 2004/05, 2005/06 and 2006/07 marketing years’.

‘for

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 August 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) 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).

(2) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

(3) OJ L 344, 20.11.2004, p. 8. Regulation as amended by Regulation

lation (EC) No 1820/2005 (OJ L 293, 9.11.2005, p. 8).

(EC) No 1215/2005 (OJ L 199, 29.7.2005, p. 31).