CELEX: 31998R0451
Language: en
Date: 1998-02-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 451/98 of 26 February 1998 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

27. 2. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 58/29
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 451/98
                                                    of 26 February 1998
                               on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        (EC) No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the issue of
                                                                   export licences with advance fixing of the refund is
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   restricted; whereas, therefore, a single percentage for the
Community,
                                                                   acceptance of applications submitted between 18
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/               February and 24 February 1998 should be applied and
95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export              the submission of applications and the issue of licences
licences for wine-sector products (1), as last amended by          suspended until 15 March,
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                                          Article 1
of 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 February and 24 February 1998 under Regu-
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-                  lation (EC) No 1685/95 shall be issued for 76,8 % of the
tiations;                                                          quantities requested.
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays               2. The issue of export licences for wine-sector products
down the conditions under which the Commission may                 for which applications are submitted from 25 February
take specific measures to prevent an overrun of the                1998 and the submission of export licence applications
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said          from 27 February 1998 shall be suspended until 15
Agreement;                                                         March 1998.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence                                      Article 2
applications available to the Commission on 25 February
1998, the quantity still available for the period until 15         This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 February
March 1998 referred to in Article 1a (1) of Regulation             1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 26 February 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.