# C_2017319EN.01000101.xml

| 26.9.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 319/1 |
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26.9.2017

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 319/1

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Notice to sugar operators on the administration of certain sugar tariff quotas during the 2017/2018 marketing year

(2017/C 319/01)

| 1. | Article 192(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that import licences for sugar for refining shall be issued during the first 3 months of each marketing year only to full-time refiners provided that the quantities concerned do not exceed the quantities of the exclusive import capacity for full-time refiners set out in paragraph 1 of that Article. In accordance with Article 192(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, exclusive import capacity for full-time refiners was only granted until the end of the 2016/2017 marketing year. |
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Article 192(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that import licences for sugar for refining shall be issued during the first 3 months of each marketing year only to full-time refiners provided that the quantities concerned do not exceed the quantities of the exclusive import capacity for full-time refiners set out in paragraph 1 of that Article. In accordance with Article 192(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, exclusive import capacity for full-time refiners was only granted until the end of the 2016/2017 marketing year.

| 2. | Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 provides that only full-time refiners may apply for import licences for sugar intended for refining with a start validity date during the first 3 months of each marketing year. |
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Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 provides that only full-time refiners may apply for import licences for sugar intended for refining with a start validity date during the first 3 months of each marketing year.

| 3. | In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 891/2009, licence applications for the first subperiod of the 2017/2018 import tariff quota period were to be submitted from 8 to 14 September 2017. |
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In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 891/2009, licence applications for the first subperiod of the 2017/2018 import tariff quota period were to be submitted from 8 to 14 September 2017.

| 4. | For reasons of legal certainty as regards the right of operators other than full-time refiners to submit applications for import licenses for the first subperiod of the 2017/2018 import tariff quota period, the Commission will publish before 1 October 2017 an Implementing Regulation:






  — | deleting Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 as from 1 October 2017, |
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For reasons of legal certainty as regards the right of operators other than full-time refiners to submit applications for import licenses for the first subperiod of the 2017/2018 import tariff quota period, the Commission will publish before 1 October 2017 an Implementing Regulation:

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deleting Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 as from 1 October 2017,

| — | extending until 9 October 2017, 13.00 hours Brussels time, the period for the submission of applications for the first subperiod of the 2017/2018 import tariff quota period, |
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extending until 9 October 2017, 13.00 hours Brussels time, the period for the submission of applications for the first subperiod of the 2017/2018 import tariff quota period,

| — | adjusting in consequence the period of issuance of import licences and the period of notification of applications received by Member States, and |
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adjusting in consequence the period of issuance of import licences and the period of notification of applications received by Member States, and

| — | allowing applicants to withdraw applications already submitted between 8 and 14 September 2017 until 9 October 2017, 13.00 hours Brussels time, in case they wish to reconsider their application or introduce a revised application. |
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allowing applicants to withdraw applications already submitted between 8 and 14 September 2017 until 9 October 2017, 13.00 hours Brussels time, in case they wish to reconsider their application or introduce a revised application.

| 5. | All the applications submitted between 8 September 2017 and 9 October 2017, 13.00 hours Brussels time, will be examined simultaneously. |
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All the applications submitted between 8 September 2017 and 9 October 2017, 13.00 hours Brussels time, will be examined simultaneously.

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