Commission Regulation (EC) No 518/2007 of 10 May 2007 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2007-05-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, quantitative restriction, viticulture

11.5.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 122/29

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 518/2007

of 10 May 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,

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 2 to 8 May 2007 should be applied and the
submission of applications and the issue of
licences
suspended for this zone until 1 July 2007,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

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 9 May 2007,
the period until
the
(3)
30 June 2007,

for
for destination zones (1) Africa,

available

quantity

still

Export

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
wine-sector products
for which applications are submitted
from 2 to 8 May 2007 under Regulation (EC) No 883/2001
shall be issued in concurrence with 20,42 % of the quantities
requested for zone (1) Africa, in concurrence with 35,14 % of
the quantities requested for zone (3) Eastern Europe and in
concurrence with 30,30 % of
requested for
zone (4) Western Europe.

the quantities

The issue of export

for wine-sector products
licences
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 9 May 2007 and the submission of export licence appli-
cations from 11 May 2007 for destination zone (1) Africa, (3)
Eastern Europe and (4) Western Europe shall be suspended until
1 July 2007.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 May 2007.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 10 May 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).