Commission Regulation (EC) No 314/2007 of 22 March 2007 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2007-03-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, viticulture, wine

L 82/26

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

23.3.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 314/2007

of 22 March 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 21 March
2007, the quantity still available for the period until
(3)
30 April 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
from 16 to 20 March 2007 should be applied and the
submission of applications and the issue of
licences
suspended for this zone until 2 May 2007,

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 20 March 2007 under Regulation (EC) No
883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 30,22 % of the
quantities requested for zone (1) Africa,
in concurrence with
requested for zone (3) Eastern
40,02 % of
the quantities
Europe and in concurrence with 83,80 % 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
licence
from 21 March 2007 and the submission of export
applications from 23 March 2007 for destination zone (1)
Africa,
(3) Eastern Europe and (4) Western Europe shall be
suspended until 2 May 2007.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 March 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 March 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).