CELEX: 31973R0456
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 456/73 of the Commission of 31 January 1973 on interim measures for the importation into the Community of wine exported as 'Cyprus Sherry' originating in and coming from Cyprus

No L 53 / 12                         Official Journal of the European Communities                              26 . 2 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 456/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 31 January 1973
                  on interim measures for the importation into the Community of wine exported as
                                  'Cyprus Sherry' originating in and coming from Cyprus
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   "Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                    are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management
                                                                   Committee for Wine ;
 Having regard to the Treaty ( x) concerning the Acces­            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  sion of new Member States to the European Economic
  Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­
  munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in
 particular Article 63 of the Act (2) annexed thereto ;                                   Article 1
                                                                  The countervailing charge provided for in the first
                                                                   subparagraph of Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 816/70 shall not be levied on imports into the
 Whereas the application, as from 1 February 1973 ,               United Kingdom and Ireland of wine exported as
 by the United Kingdom and Ireland of rules for im­               ' Cyprus Sherry' originating in and coming from
 portation laid down in Council Regulation (EEC)                  Cyprus .
 No 816/70 (3) of 28 April 1970, making additional
 provisions for the common organization of the market
 in wine, and in particular the countervailing charge
 referred to in Article 9 (3 ) thereof, could cause a sharp                               Article 2
 deflection of the traditional exports of wine by Cyprus
 to the markets of the United Kingdom and Ireland                 Article 1 shall apply to a maximum annual volume of
 as ' Cyprus Sherry' ; whereas such deflection is of a            50 000 hectolitres .
 nature to cause serious harm both to Cyprus, a country
 to which the Community is bound by an associated
 agreement, and to British and Irish imports of this                                      Article 3
 product ;
                                                                  Wines imported into the United Kingdom and Ireland
                                                                  free of the countervailing charge, as provided by
                                                                  Article 1 , may not be dispatched to other Member
Whereas the Community has signed a protocol with                  States .
 Cyprus providing for the application of the rules for
importation under Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 to be
deferred in the case of the product in question ; whereas                                 Article 4
moreover the provisions of this protocol will not enter
into force before 1 February 1973 ; whereas measures
are therefore required to ensure that, pending the entry          The Member States in question shall inform the
into force of the interim preferential rules provided for         Commission , on the 16th day of each month at the
in the above mentioned protocol , imports into the                latest, of the quantity of wine imported in accordance
United Kingdom and Ireland shall not be subject to               with this Regulation during the preceding month.
rules for the importation into the Community of wine
from third countries ;
                                                                                          Article 5
                                                                 This Regulation shall apply until the entry into force
                                                                 of the rules for the import into the Community of the
                                                                 product referred to in Article 1 to be adopted pursuant
i1) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                            to the agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and
(3) OJ No L 99, 5 . 5. 1970, p. 1 .                              the Community, and in particular the exchange of
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letters annexed to the protocol on certain provisions                               Article 6
bearing on the agreemeent establishing an association
between the European Economic Community and the             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
Republic of Cyprus consequent upon the Accession of         its publication in the Official Journal of the European
new Member States to the Community, signed on 19            Communities .
December 1972 at Brussels, and no later than 30 April
1973 .                                                      It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI