CELEX: 31997R0631
Language: en
Date: 1997-04-10 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 631/97 of 10 April 1997 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

No L 96/ 6             EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                                11 . 4. 97
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 631 /97
                                                         of 10 April 1997
                                  on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       commitment level provided for under the Agreement
                                                                    being exceeded;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,                                                        Whereas, on the basis of information available to the
                                                                    Commission on 9 April 1997, the level of expenditure
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                    provided for in the Agreement could be exceeded unless
   1685/95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing
                                                                    the issue of export licences with advance fixing of the
  export licences for wine-sector products and amending             refund is restricted; whereas the submission of applica­
  Regulation (EEC) No 3388/81 laying down special                   tions should be suspended from 11 April 1997,
  detailed rules in respect of import and export licences in
  the wine sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
  561 /97 (z), 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 (% as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 No 536/97 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for              Applications for export licences for wine-sector products
 wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure                with advance fixing of the refund submitted from 9 April
 agreed in the Agreement on Agriculture, concluded                  1997 shall be refused and the submission of applications
 during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;          for such licences is hereby suspended from 11 April 1997.
 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays                                        Article 2
 down the conditions under which special measures may
 be adopted by the Commission to prevent the annual                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 April 1997.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at Brussels, 10 April 1997.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
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