31973R0456

No L 53 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 2 . 73

REGULATION (EEC ) No 456/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 January 1973 on interim measures for the importation into the Community of wine exported as ' Cyprus Sherry' originating in and coming from Cyprus

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN "Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation COMMUNITIES , are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management Committee for Wine ;

Having regard to the Treaty ( x) concerning the Acces­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : sion of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­ munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 , and in Article 1 particular Article 63 of the Act (2) annexed thereto ;

The countervailing charge provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 9 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 shall not be levied on imports into the Whereas the application, as from 1 February 1973 , United Kingdom and Ireland of wine exported as by the United Kingdom and Ireland of rules for im­ ' Cyprus Sherry' originating in and coming from portation laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) Cyprus . No 816/70 (3) of 28 April 1970, making additional provisions for the common organization of the market in wine, and in particular the countervailing charge Article 2 referred to in Article 9 (3 ) thereof, could cause a sharp deflection of the traditional exports of wine by Cyprus to the markets of the United Kingdom and Ireland Article 1 shall apply to a maximum annual volume of as ' Cyprus Sherry' ; whereas such deflection is of a 50 000 hectolitres . nature to cause serious harm both to Cyprus, a country to which the Community is bound by an associated agreement, and to British and Irish imports of this Article 3 product ;

Wines imported into the United Kingdom and Ireland free of the countervailing charge, as provided by Article 1 , may not be dispatched to other Member Whereas the Community has signed a protocol with States . Cyprus providing for the application of the rules for importation under Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 to be deferred in the case of the product in question ; whereas Article 4 moreover the provisions of this protocol will not enter into force before 1 February 1973 ; whereas measures The Member States in question shall inform the are therefore required to ensure that, pending the entry Commission , on the 16th day of each month at the into force of the interim preferential rules provided for latest, of the quantity of wine imported in accordance in the above mentioned protocol , imports into the with this Regulation during the preceding month. United Kingdom and Ireland shall not be subject to rules for the importation into the Community of wine from third countries ; Article 5

This Regulation shall apply until the entry into force of the rules for the import into the Community of the product referred to in Article 1 to be adopted pursuant i1) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p. 5 . to the agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14. (3) OJ No L 99 , 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 . the Community, and in particular the exchange of

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letters annexed to the protocol on certain provisions Article 6 bearing on the agreemeent establishing an association between the European Economic Community and the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of Republic of Cyprus consequent upon the Accession of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities . new Member States to the Community, signed on 19 December 1972 at Brussels, and no later than 30 April 1973 . It shall apply from 1 February 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .

For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI