Commission Regulation (EC) No 23/2009 of 14 January 2009 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1282/2001 as regards the final date for submitting harvest and production declarations for the 2008/09 marketing year
Date: 2009-01-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: exchange of information, marketing year, production, regulation of agricultural production, viticulture

L 10/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

15.1.2009

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 23/2009

of 14 January 2009

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1282/2001 as regards the final date for submitting harvest and
production declarations for the 2008/09 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

have experienced a problem of capacity. Those centres
are unable to handle all declarations by the deadline.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of
17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
wine (1), and in particular Article 23 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 11(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1282/2001 (2) requires wine growers to submit harvest
and production declarations no later than 10 December,
so that the volume of Community wine production can
be known in good time.

1493/1999,

In one Member State, the need to adjust the computer
system for handling compulsory declarations as a result
of new measures introduced by Council Regulation (EC)
No 479/2008 of 29 April 2008 on the common organ­
isation of the market in wine amending Regulations (EC)
No
(EC) No
1290/2005 and (EC) No 3/2008, and repealing Regu­
lations (EEC) No 2392/86 and (EC) No 1493/1999 (3),
which are linked to the vineyard parcels of the vineyard
register, particularly the distillation into potable alcohol,
has caused a delay in the availability of this system to
producers.

1782/2003,

(EC) No

(4)

(5)

In order to rectify these two different situations, which
are outside producers’ control, and therefore to avoid
producers incurring unjustified penalties, they should be
granted an extension for the submission of harvest and
production declarations and the Member States should be
allowed to extend this time frame to a final deadline.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

for

(EC) No
11(1)
Notwithstanding Article
1282/2001,
the declarations
the 2008/09 wine year
referred to in Articles 2 and 4 of that Regulation may be
submitted up to 31 December 2008. However, Member States
may extend this time frame to 15 January 2009 at the latest.

of Regulation

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi­
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(3)

In another Member State, some of the computer centres
to which producers have to submit those declarations

It shall apply from 10 December 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 January 2009.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 176, 29.6.2001, p. 14.
(3) OJ L 148, 6.6.2008, p. 1.