CELEX: 31996R2106
Language: en
Date: 1996-10-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2106/96 of 31 October 1996 temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences in the wine sector

1 . 11 . 96             EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 282/51
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2106/96
                                                            of 31 October 1996
                           temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences in the wine sector
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            for export licences, it appears that there is a serious risk
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  that the quantity provided for in the Agreement will
   Community,                                                             shortly be exhausted; whereas it is necessary to avoid a
                                                                         volume of applications likely to lead to a distortion in
   Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                         competition between operators and to threaten the conti­
   1685/95 of 10 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing                   nuity of exports during the remainder of the year;
   export licences for wine sector products and amending                 whereas, consequently, applications for which licences
   Regulation (EEC) No 3388/ 81 laying down special                      have not yet been granted should be rejected, and the
   detailed rules in respect of import and export licences in            issuing of export licences with advance fixing of the
   the wine sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No            refund for the products concerned should be temporarily
   2807/95 (2), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof,                 suspended,
  Whereas under Article 55 (7) of Council Regulation (EEC)
   No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organiza­
  tion of the market in wine (3), as amended by Council
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of 22 December 1994 on the
  adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the
  agriculture sector in order to implement the Agreements
  concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral                                               Article 1
  trade negotiations (4); export refunds are granted for
  products in the wine sector only within the limits on                 Applications for export licences with advance fixing of
  volumes and expenditure laid down in those Agreements;                 refunds in the wine sector lodged from 23 October 1996
                                                                        shall be rejected, and the lodging of applications for such
  Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays                  licences shall be suspended until 5 November 1996.
  down the conditions in which special measures may be
  taken by the Commission to avoid early exhaustion of the
  annual quantity commitment provided for under the                                                Article 2
 Agreement;
 Whereas on the basis of information available to the                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
 Commission on 30 October 1996 concerning applications                  1996 .
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                      States .
                      Done at Brussels, 31 October 1996.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                                              Member of the Commission
(')   OJ  No   L 161 , 12. 7. 1995, p. 2.
(2)   OJ  No   L 291 , 6. 12. 1995, p. 18 .
(3)   OJ  No   L 84, 27. 3 . 1987, p. 1 .
(4)   OJ  No   L 349 , 31 . 12. 1994, p . 105.