Commission Regulation (EC) No 1097/2007 of 20 September 2007 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2007-09-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, quantitative restriction, viticulture, wine

21.9.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 246/31

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1097/2007

of 20 September 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:

15 November 2007,
for destination zones (1) Africa
and (3) eastern Europe, referred to in Article 9(5) of
Regulation (EC) No 883/2001,
exceeded
unless the issue of export licences with advance fixing
of the refund is restricted. Therefore, a single percentage
for the acceptance of applications submitted from 16 to
applied and the
18 September 2007 should be
submission of applications and the issue of
licences
suspended for this zone until 16 November 2007,

could be

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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.

Export

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
wine-sector products
for which applications are submitted
from 16 to 18 September 2007 under Regulation (EC) No
883/2001 shall be issued in concurrence with 55,94 % of the
quantities requested for zone (1) Africa and in concurrence with
72,83 % of the quantities requested for zone (3) eastern Europe.

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

The issue of export

2.
for wine-sector products
licences
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 19 September 2007 and the submission of export licence
applications from 21 September 2007 for destination zone (1)
Africa and (3) eastern Europe shall be suspended until 16
November 2007.

On the basis of
information on export licence appli-
cations available to the Commission on 19 September
2007, the quantity still available for the period until

This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 September 2007.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 20 September 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 560/2007 (OJ L 132, 24.5.2007, p. 31).

(2) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).