CELEX: 31998R2497
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2497/98 of 19 November 1998 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

20. 11. 98           EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                     L 311/3
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2497/98
                                                  of 19 November 1998
                              on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       issue of export licences with advance fixing of the refund
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             is restricted; whereas, therefore, a single percentage for the
Community,                                                        acceptance of applications submitted between 16 and 17
                                                                  November 1998 should be applied and the submission of
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/              applications and the issue of licences suspended until 15
95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export             January 1999,
licences for wine-sector products (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1354/97 (2), and in particular Article
3(3) thereof,                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Article 55(7) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation of                                        Article 1
the market in wine (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)        1. Export licences with advance fixing of the refund for
No 1627/98 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for            wine-sector products for which applications are submitted
wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure               between 16 and 17 November 1998 under Regulation
contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded               (EC) No 1685/95 shall be issued for 47,9 % of the quant-
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;         ities requested.
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays
down the conditions under which the Commission may                2. The issue of export licences for wine-sector products
take specific measures to prevent an overrun of the               for which applications are submitted from 18 November
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said         1998 and the submission of export licence applications
Agreement;                                                        from 20 November 1998 shall be suspended until 15
                                                                  January 1999.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence
applications available to the Commission on 18                                               Article 2
November 1998, the quantity still available for the period
until 15 January 1999 referred to in Article 1a(1) of Regu-       This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 November
lation (EC) No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the              1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 19 November 1998.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 161, 12. 7. 1995, p. 2.
(2) OJ L 186, 16. 7. 1997, p. 9.
(3) OJ L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 210, 28. 7. 1998, p. 8.