CELEX: 31999R2446
Language: en
Date: 1999-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2446/1999 of 18 November 1999 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

L 298/6                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                  19. 11. 1999
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2446/1999
                                                         of 18 November 1999
                                    on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     unless the issue of export licences with advance fixing of
                                                                                the refund is restricted; whereas, therefore, a single
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           percentage for the acceptance of applications submitted
Community,                                                                      on 16 November 1999 should be applied and the
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 of                       submission of applications and the issue of licences
11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export licences for                    suspended until 15 January 2000 for zones (3) Eastern
wine-sector products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 Europe and (4) Western Europe referred to in Article
2182/1999 (2), and in particular Article 3(3) thereof,                          3(4a) of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95,
(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 1677/1999 (4), limits the grant of export                                             Article 1
        refunds for wine-sector products to the volumes and
        expenditure contained in the Agreement on Agriculture            1.    Export licences with advance fixing of the refund for
        concluded during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade            wine-sector products for which applications are submitted
        negotiations;                                                    between 16 November 1999 under Regulation (EC) No 1685/
                                                                         95 shall be issued for 56 % of the quantities requested for zone
(2)     Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays             (3) Eastern Europe, and for 100 % of the quantities requested
        down the conditions under which the Commission may               for zone (4) Western Europe,
        take specific measures to prevent an overrun of the
        quantity laid down or the budget available under the             2.    The issue of export licences for wine-sector products
        said Agreement;                                                  referred to in paragraph 1 for which applications are submitted
                                                                         from 17 November 1999 and the submission of export licence
(3)     Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence           applications from 19 November 1999 shall be suspended until
        applications available to the Commission on 17                   15 January 2000.
        November 1999, the quantity still available for the
        period until 15 January 2000, for zones (3) Eastern                                           Article 2
        Europe and (4) Western Europe referred to in Article
        3(4a) of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95, could be exceeded           This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 November 1999.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                      Done at Brussels, 18 November 1999.
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                  Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L  161, 12.7.1995, p. 2.
(2) OJ L  267, 15.10.1999, p. 21.
(3) OJ L  84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(4) OJ L  199, 30.7.1999, p. 8.