CELEX: 31998R0959
Language: en
Date: 1998-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 959/98 of 7 May 1998 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

8. 5. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 135/3
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 959/98
                                                      of 7 May 1998
                              on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       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 1 May and 5 May 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 June 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 organisation 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 1 May and 5 May 1998 under Regulation (EC)
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;         No 1685/95 shall be issued for 29,7 % 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 6 May 1998
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said         and the submission of export licence applications from 8
Agreement;                                                        May 1998 shall be suspended until 30 June 1998.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence                                     Article 2
applications available to the Commission on 6 May 1998,
the quantity still available for the period until 30 June         This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 May 1998.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 7 May 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.