CELEX: 31997R0062
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-16 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 62/97 of 16 January 1997 temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences in the wine sector

No L 14/38            EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 1 . 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 62/97
                                                       of 16 January 1997
                     temporarily suspending the issuing of export licences in the wine sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas on the basis of information available to the
                                                                   Commission on 15 January 1997 concerning applications
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              for export licences, it appears that there is a serious risk
Community,                                                         that the quantity provided for in the Agreement will
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                     shortly be exhausted; whereas it is necessary to avoid a
1685/95 of 10 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing                volume of applications likely to lead to a distortion in
export licences for wine sector products and amending              competition between operators and to threaten the conti­
Regulation (EEC) No 3388 /81 laying down special                   nuity of exports during the remainder of the year;
detailed rules in respect of import and export licences in         whereas, consequently, applications for which licences
the wine sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No         have not yet been granted should be rejected,
2807/95 (2), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof,
Whereas under Article 55 (7) of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organiza­                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion of the market in wine (3), as amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 of 22 December 1994 on the
adjustments and transitional arrangements required in the                                   Article 1
agriculture sector in order to implement the Agreements
concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral                 Applications for export licences with advance fixing of
trade negotiations (4), export refunds are granted for             refunds in the wine sector lodged from 8 January 1997 to
products in the wine sector only within the limits on               16 January 1997 shall be rejected.
volumes and expenditure laid down in those Agreements;
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1685/95 lays
down the conditions in which special measures may be                                        Article 2
taken by the Commission to avoid early exhaustion of the
annual quantity commitment provided for under the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 January
Agreement;                                                          1997 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                   Done at Brussels, 16 January 1997.
                                                                            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.