Commission Regulation (EC) No 44/2007 of 18 January 2007 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2007-01-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, quantitative restriction, viticulture

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Official Journal of the European Union

19.1.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 44/2007

of 18 January 2007

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 17 January
2007, the quantity still available for the period until
(3)
15 March 2007,

for destination zones (1) Africa,

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
on 16 January 2007 should be applied and the
submission of applications and the issue of
licences
suspended for this zone until 16 March 2007,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Export

licences with advance fixing of

1.
the refund for
wine-sector products for which applications are submitted on
16 January 2007 under Regulation (EC) No 883/2001 shall be
issued in concurrence with 38,30 % of the quantities requested
for zone (1) Africa, in concurence with 53,66 % of the quan-
tities requested for zone (3) Eastern Europe and in concurence
with 34,57 % 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 17 January 2007 and the submission of export licence
applications from 19 January 2007 for destination zone (1)
Africa,
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) Western Europe shall be
suspended until 16 March 2007.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 January 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 January 2007.

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

Regulation (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

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