CELEX: 31974R2186
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2186/74 of the Commission of 20 August 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 relating to the application of the system of import licences in the wine sector

22. 8 . 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 231 /9
                               REGULATION ( EEC) No 2186/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 20 August 1974
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 as regards the application of the system
                                              of import licences in the wine sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        special detailed rules for the application of the system
COMMUNITIES,                                                          of import and export licences and advance fixing
                                                                      certificates for agricultural products, as last amended
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 by Regulation (EEC) No 1454/74 (6) ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
816/70 (') of 28 April 1970 laying down additional                    ment Committee for Wine,
provisions for the common organization of the market
in wine as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1 532/74 (2), and in particular Article 8 (3) thereof ;              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the third indent of Article 4 (3) of Commis­                                            Article 1
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1 373/70 (3) on common
detailed rules for the application of the system of                   The text of Article 52 of Regulation (EEC) No
imports and export licences and advance fixing certifi­               2637/70 is replaced by the following :
cates for agricultural products subject to a single price                 'Article 52
system, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
211 1 /74 (4), provides that no licence shall be required                 No licence shall be required for the purposes of
for the purposes of operations relating to quantities                     operations relating to a quantity not exceeding 1
such that the security for the corresponding licence                      hectolitre or as appropriate 100 kilogrammes.'
would be less than 2 units of account ; whereas the
application of this provision in the wine sector would                                          Article 2
entail the fixing of a number of different levels of                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
exemption according to the type of product                            following its publication in the Official Journal of
concerned and its alcoholic strength ; whereas it is                  the European Communities.
thus desirable, for reasons of administrative simplifica­
tion , to specify a single level of exemption for all wine            It shall apply in respect of operations for which
products, and to amend accordingly Article 52 of                      customs import formalities are completed on or after
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 (5) on                          1 October 1974 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 20 August 1974.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ   No  L 99, 5. 5.   1970, p.  1.
(2) OJ   No  L  166, 21 . 6. 1974,  p. 1 .
(>) OJ   No  L  158, 20.  7. 1970,  p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No  L 220, 10.   8 . 1974, p. 5.
(5) OJ No L 283, 29. 12. 1970, p. 15.                                 (*) OJ No L 155, 12. 6. 1974, p. 10 .