CELEX: 32000R2441
Language: en
Date: 2000-11-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2441/2000 of 3 November 2000 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

4.11.2000             EN                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 280/43
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2441/2000
                                                           of 3 November 2000
                                   on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      3(4a) of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95, could be exceeded
                                                                                 unless the issue of export licences with advance fixing of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                 the refund is restricted. Therefore, a single percentage for
Community,
                                                                                 the acceptance of applications submitted between 25
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 of                        and 31 October 2000 should be applied and the
11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export licences for                     submission of applications and the issue of licences
wine-sector products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                  suspended until 15 November 2000,
2739/1999 (2), and in particular Article 3(3) thereof,
Whereas:                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1)     Article 63(7) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999
        of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the                                                Article 1
        market in wine (3) limits the grant of export refunds for
        wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure               1.    Export licences with advance fixing of the refund for
        contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded               wine-sector products for which applications are submitted
        during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-                 between 25 and 31 October 2000 under Regulation (EC) No
        tiations.                                                         1685/95 shall be issued for 62,70 % of the quantities requested
                                                                          for zone (2) Asia.
(2)     Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays down the
        conditions under which the Commission may take                    2.    The issue of export licences for wine-sector products
        specific measures to prevent an overrun of the quantity           referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
        laid down or the budget available under the said Agree-           from 1 November 2000 and the submission of export licence
        ment.                                                             applications from 4 November 2000 shall be suspended until
                                                                          15 November 2000.
(3)     On the basis of information on export licence applica-
        tions available to the Commission on 3 November                                                 Article 2
        2000, the quantity still available for the period until 15
        November 2000, for zone (2) Asia referred to in Article           This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 November 2000.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                     Done at Brussels, 3 November 2000.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                   Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 161, 12.7.1995, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 60.
(3) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.