CELEX: 31999R0965
Language: en
Date: 1999-05-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 965/1999 of 6 May 1999 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

L 119/30             EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                7. 5. 1999
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 965/1999
                                                       of 6 May 1999
                               on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        1999 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 and 4 May 1999
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 1999,
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 1627/98 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for             1.   Export licences 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                on between 1 and 4 May 1999 under Regulation (EC) No
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;          1685/95 shall be issued for 24,4 % 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 5 May 1999
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said          and the submission of export licence applications from 7
Agreement;                                                         May 1999 shall be suspended until 30 June 1999.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence                                      Article 2
applications available to the Commission on 5 May 1999,
the quantity still available for the period until 30 June          This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 May 1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 6 May 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.