CELEX: 31999R0591
Language: en
Date: 1999-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 591/1999 of 18 March 1999 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

L 74/10              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               19. 3. 1999
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 591/1999
                                                    of 18 March 1999
                              on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       April 1999 referred to in Article 1a(1) of Regulation (EC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the issue of export
Community,                                                        licences with advance fixing of the refund is restricted;
                                                                  whereas, therefore, a single percentage for the acceptance
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/              of applications submitted on 16 March 1999 should be
95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export             applied and the submission of applications and the issue
licences for wine-sector products (1), as last amended by         of licences suspended until 30 April 1999,
Regulation (EC) No 1354/97 (2), and in particular Article
3(3) thereof,
Whereas Article 55(7) of Council Regulation (EEC) No              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation of
the market in wine (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)                                 Article 1
No 1627/98 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for            1. Export licences 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               on 16 March 1999 under Regulation (EC) No 1685/95
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;         shall be issued for 25 % 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 17 March 1999
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said         and the submission of export licence applications from 19
Agreement;                                                        March 1999 shall be suspended until 30 April 1999.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence                                     Article 2
applications available to the Commission on 17 March
1999, the quantity still available for the period until 30        This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 March 1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 18 March 1999.
                                                                            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.