5.1.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 3/12

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 5/2008

of 4 January 2008

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1282/2001 as regards the final date for submitting harvest and production declarations for the 2007/08 wine year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine (1), and in particular Article 73 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 11(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1282/2001 (2) requires wine growers to submit harvest and production declarations no later than 10 December, with a view to knowing the volume of Community wine production in good time.

(2)

In one Member State, some of the computer centres to which producers have to submit those declarations have experienced a problem of capacity. Those centres are unable to take delivery of all the declarations by the deadline.

(3)

To resolve the problem, which is not the fault of the producers, and to avoid their being unjustly penalised, those producers should be granted an extension for the submission of harvest and production declarations.

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2001, for the 2007/08 wine year the declarations referred to in Articles 2 and 4 of that Regulation may be submitted up to 31 January 2008.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 10 December 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 January 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 176, 29.6.2001, p. 14.