CELEX: 31999R0133
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 133/1999 of 21 January 1999 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

22. 1. 1999          EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 17/21
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 133/1999
                                                    of 21 January 1999
                              on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       licences with advance fixing of the refund is restricted;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             whereas, therefore, a single percentage for the acceptance
Community,                                                        of applications submitted between 16 and 19 January
                                                                  1999 should be applied and the submission of applica-
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/              tions and the issue of licences suspended until 15 March
95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export             1999,
licences for wine-sector products (1), as last amended by
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)        1. Export licences with advance fixing of the refund for
No 1627/98 (4), limits the grant of export refunds for            wine-sector products for which applications are submitted
wine-sector products to the volumes and expenditure               between 16 and 19 January 1999 under Regulation (EC)
contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded               No 1685/95 shall be issued for 30 % of the quantities
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;         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 20 January
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said         1999 and the submission of export licence applications
Agreement;                                                        from 22 January 1999 shall be suspended until 15 March
                                                                  1999.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence
applications available to the Commission on 20 January                                     Article 2
1999, the quantity still available for the period until 15
March 1999 referred to in Article 1a(1) of Regulation (EC)        This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 January
No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the issue of export          1999.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 21 January 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.