Commission Regulation (EC) No 169/2006 of  31 January 2006  derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 as regards the issue of import licences under tranche No 1 of subquota III for common wheat of a quality other than high quality
Date: 2006-01-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common wheat, import licence, tariff quota

1.2.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 27/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 169/2006

of 31 January 2006

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 as regards the issue of import licences under
tranche No 1 of subquota III for common wheat of a quality other than high quality

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in
cereals (1), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 (2) opened
an annual tariff quota of 2 981 600 tonnes of common
wheat of a quality other than high quality. That quota is
divided into three subquotas.

Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 fixed
a quantity of 592 900 tonnes for tranche No 1 of
subquota III for the period 1 January to 31 March 2006.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 4/2006 (3)
laid down
the percentage of import licences that could be issued
on the basis of the information in the Commission’s
possession on 2 January 2006. However, one Member
State subsequently informed the Commission that a large
number of applications submitted by its operators were
inadmissible. As a result, against all expectations, consi-
derable quantities
the period
remain available
concerned. Those quantities should therefore be laid

for

down and a derogation made from the first sentence
of Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 by
the lodging of new licence
authorising, exceptionally,
applications for these quantities in accordance with the
rules laid down by Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002.

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from the first sentence of Article 3(4) of
Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002,
licence applications
may be lodged from Monday, 6 February 2006 for the quan-
tities of 464 879,874 tonnes available under subquota III
referred to in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002
for the period from 1 January to 31 March 2006.

import

The applications shall be lodged under the terms laid down by
Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002, and in particular Article 5
thereof.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 January 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as

(EC) No 1154/2005 (OJ

amended by
L 187,

Commission Regulation
19.7.2005, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 88. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 777/2004 (OJ L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 50).

(3) OJ L 2, 5.1.2006, p. 3.