Commission Regulation (EC) No 1400/2006 of 21 September 2006 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2006-09-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, quantitative restriction, viticulture

22.9.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 261/25

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1400/2006

of 21 September 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 20 September
2006, the quantity still available for the period until
for destination zones (1) Africa,
15 November 2006,

(3) Eastern Europe and (4) western Europe, referred to
in Article 9(5) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2001, could be
exceeded unless the issue of export licences with advance
the refund is restricted. Therefore, a single
fixing of
percentage for the acceptance of applications submitted
from 16 to 19 September 2006 should be applied and
the submission of applications and the issue of licences
suspended for this zone until 16 November 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 19 September 2006 under Regulation (EC)
No 883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 72,07 % of
the quantities requested for zone (1) Africa, in concurence with
34,45 % of the quantities requested for zone (3) eastern Europe
and in concurence with 78,08 % of the quantities requested for
zone (4) western Europe.

The issue of export

for wine-sector products
licences
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 20 September 2006 and the submission of export licence
applications from 22 September 2006 for destination zone (1)
Africa,
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) western Europe shall be
suspended until 16 November 2006.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 September 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 September 2006.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc 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).