CELEX: 31998R2023
Language: en
Date: 1998-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2023/98 of 24 September 1998 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

25. 9. 98             EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                     L 262/3
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2023/98
                                                   of 24 September 1998
                               on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        the issue of export licences with advance fixing of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              refund is restricted; whereas, therefore, a single percentage
Community,                                                         for the acceptance of applications submitted between 16
                                                                   and 22 September 1998 should be applied and the
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1685/               submission of applications and the issue of licences
95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing export              suspended until 15 November 1998,
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 22 September 1998 under Regulation
contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded                (EC) No 1685/95 shall be issued for 95,8 % of the quant-
during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;          ities 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 23 September
quantity laid down or the budget available under the said          1998 and the submission of export licence applications
Agreement;                                                         from 25 September 1998 shall be suspended until 15
                                                                   November 1998.
Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence
applications available to the Commission on 23                                               Article 2
September 1998, the quantity still available for the period
until 15 November 1998 referred to in Article 1a(1) of             This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 September
Regulation (EC) No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless               1998.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 24 September 1998.
                                                                              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.