CELEX: 31999R1500
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1500/1999 of 8 July 1999 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

L 174/18               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      9. 7. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1500/1999
                                                              of 8 July 1999
                                    on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                      August 1999 referred to in Article 1a(1) of Regulation
                                                                                 (EC) No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the issue of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            export licences with advance fixing of the refund is
Community,                                                                       restricted; whereas, therefore, a single percentage for the
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 of                        acceptance of applications submitted between 1 and 6
11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export licences for                     July 1999 should be applied and the submission of
wine-sector products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                  applications and the issue of licences suspended until 7
1354/97 (2), and in particular Article 3(3) thereof,                             October 1999,
(1)     Whereas Article 55(7) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
        822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        of the market in wine (3), as last amended by Regulation
        (EC) No 1627/98 (4), limits the grant of export refunds                                        Article 1
        for wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure
        contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded               1.    Export licences with advance fixing of the refund for
        during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade nego-                 wine-sector products for which applications are submitted on
        tiations;                                                         between 1 and 6 July 1999 under Regulation (EC) No 1685/95
                                                                          shall be issued for 26,6 % of the quantities requested.
(2)     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 for
        take specific measures to prevent an overrun of the               which applications are submitted from 7 July 1999 and the
        quantity laid down or the budget available under the              submission of export licence applications from 9 July 1999
        said Agreement;                                                   shall be suspended until 7 October 1999.
(3)     Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence                                         Article 2
        applications available to the Commission on 7 July
        1999, the quantity still available for the period until 31        This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 July 1999.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 8 July 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.