CELEX: 31997R2209
Language: en
Date: 1997-11-06 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2209/97 of 6 November 1997 on the issuing of export licences for wine-sector products

L 304/8               EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                               7 . 11 . 97
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2209/97
                                                     of 6 November 1997
                                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
                                                                  of applications submitted between 29 October and 4
 Community,
                                                                  November 1997 should be applied and the submission of
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                  applications and the issue of licences suspended until 15
  1685/95 of 11 July 1995 on arrangements for issuing             November,
 export licences for wine-sector products ('), as last
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1354/97 (2), and in par­
 ticular Article 3 (3) thereof,                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas Article 55 (7) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                                           Article 1
 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of
 the market in wine (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)       1.    Export liceces with advance fixing of the refund for
 No 2087/97 (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 29 October and 4 November 1997 under Regula­
 contained in the Agreement on Agriculture concluded              tion (EC) No 1685/95 shall be issued for 51,3 % of the
 during the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations;        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
                                                                  for which applications are submitted from 5 November
 take specific measures to prevent an overrun of the
                                                                  1997 and the submission of export licence applications
 quantity laid down or the budget available under the said        from 7 November 1997 shall be suspended until 15
 Agreement;                                                       November 1997 .
 Whereas, on the basis of information on export licence
 applications available to the Commission on 5 November                                    Article 2
 1997, the quantity still available for the period until 15
 November, referred to in Article la ( 1 ) of Regulation (EC)     This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 November
 No 1685/95, could be exceeded unless the issue of export         1997.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 6 November 1997.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ  L 161 , 12. 7. 1995, p. 2.
0   OJ  L 186, 16. 7. 1997, p. 9.
(3) OJ  L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1 .
 4  OJ  L 292, 25. 10 . 1997, p. 1 .