CELEX: 31998R0673
Language: en
Date: 1998-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 673/98 of 26 March 1998 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

27. 3. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 94/3
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 673/98
                                                     of 26 March 1998
                               on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        April 1998 referred to in Article 1a(1) of Regulation (EC)
                                                                   No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the issue of export
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   licences with advance fixing of the refund is restricted;
Community,
                                                                   whereas, therefore, a single percentage for the acceptance
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/               of applications submitted between 18 and 24 March 1998
95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export              should be applied and the submission of applications and
licences for wine-sector products (1), as last amended by          the issue of licences suspended until 30 April 1998,
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 organization of                                       Article 1
the market in wine (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2087/97 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for             1. Export liceces with advance fixing of the refund for
wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure                wine-sector products for which applications are submitted
contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded                between 18 and 24 March 1998 under Regulation (EC)
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;          No 1685/95 shall be issued for 99,3 % of the quantities
                                                                   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 25 March 1998
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said          and the submission of export licence applications from 27
Agreement;                                                         March 1998 shall be suspended until 30 April 1998.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence                                      Article 2
applications available to the Commission on 25 March
1998, the quantity still available for the period until 30         This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 March 1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 26 March 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  292, 25. 10. 1997, p. 1.