Commission Regulation (EC) No 31/2006 of  10 January 2006  on import licence applications for rice originating in Egypt under the tariff quota for 2006 provided for in Regulation (EC) No 955/2005
Date: 2006-01-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Egypt, import licence, originating product, rice, tariff quota

L 6/30

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

11.1.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 31/2006

of 10 January 2006

on import licence applications for rice originating in Egypt under the tariff quota for 2006 provided
for in Regulation (EC) No 955/2005

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 of
the
29 September 2003 on the common organisation of
market in rice (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 of
23 June 2005 opening a Community import quota for rice
originating in Egypt (2), and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

2 January 2006 and benefiting from a 100 % reduction
in customs duty calculated in accordance with Article 11
of Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003.

No further import licences allowing a 100 % reduction in
the customs duty should be issued for 2006.

Given its purpose, this Regulation should enter into force
on the day of its publication,

(3)

(4)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

The import licence applications for rice falling within CN
code 1006 lodged before 13.00 on 2 January 2006 and
notified to the Commission cover an amount of 67 593
tonnes, whereas the maximum amount of such rice that
can be imported under the Protocol to the Euro-Mediter-
ranean Agreement between the European Communities
and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab
Republic of Egypt, of the other part, to take account of
the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of
Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia,
the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the
Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic
of Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic to the European
Union (3), attached to Council Decision 2005/89/EC (4),
is 5 605 tonnes.

A reduction percentage should therefore be fixed for
lodged by 13.00 on
import

applications

licence

Import licence applications for rice falling within CN code 1006
under the quota opened by Regulation (EC) No 955/2005,
submitted before 13.00 on 2 January 2006 and notified to
the Commission, shall give rise to the issue of licences for the
quantities applied for multiplied by a reduction coefficient of
91,7077 %.

Article 2

Import licence applications for rice falling within CN code 1006
submitted from 13.00 on 2 January 2006 to the end of 2006
shall not give rise to the issue of an import licence for the quota
opened by Regulation (EC) No 955/2005.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 10 January 2006.

For the Commission

J. L. DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 96.
(2) OJ L 164, 24.6.2005, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 31, 4.2.2005, p. 31.
(4) OJ L 31, 4.2.2005, p. 30.