Commission Regulation (EC) No 418/2008 of 8 May 2008 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
Date: 2008-05-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: export licence, export refund, quantitative restriction, viticulture, wine

L 125/28

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

9.5.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 418/2008

of 8 May 2008

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)

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

for

still

quantity

available

the
the period until
30 June 2008, for destination zones (1) Africa and (3)
eastern Europe, referred to in Article 9(5) of Regulation
(EC) No 883/2001, could be exceeded unless the issue of
the refund is
export
restricted. Therefore,
the
for
acceptance of applications submitted from 1 to 6 May
2008 should be applied and the submission of appli-
licences suspended for this
cations and the issue of
zone until 30 June 2008,

licences with advance fixing of
a

single percentage

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Export

licences with advance fixing of

the refund for
1.
for which applications are submitted
wine-sector products
from 1 to 6 May 2008 under Regulation (EC) No 883/2001
shall be issued in concurrence with 28,98 % of the quantities
requested for zone (1) Africa and in concurrence with 91,31 %
of the quantities requested for zone (3) eastern Europe.

The issue of export

for wine-sector products
licences
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
from 7 May 2008 and the submission of export licence appli-
cations from 9 May 2008 for destination zones (1) Africa and (3)
eastern Europe shall be suspended until 30 June 2008.

(3)

On the basis of
information on export licence appli-
cations available to the Commission on 7 May 2008,

This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 May 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 8 May 2008.

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 1211/2007 (OJ L 274, 18.10.2007, p. 5).
last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1).

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