Commission Regulation (EC) No 1154/2006 of  27 July 2006  on the issue of rice import licences for applications lodged in the first 10 working days of July 2006 under Regulation (EC) No 327/98
Date: 2006-07-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, rice, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1154/2006

of 27 July 2006

on the issue of rice import licences for applications lodged in the first 10 working days of July 2006
under Regulation (EC) No 327/98

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 327/98 of 10
February 1998 opening and providing for the administration of
certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken rice (2), and
in particular Article 5(2) thereof,

Whereas:

Examination of the quantities for which rice import licence
applications have been lodged for
the July 2006 tranche
shows that licences should be issued for the quantities applied
for, multiplied, where appropriate, by a percentage reduction
and that
to the
available
following tranche and the total quantities available for the
various quotas should be fixed,

the quantities

carry-over

for

Article 1

1.
Import licence applications for the tariff quotas for rice
opened by Regulation (EC) No 327/98, submitted in the first 10
working days of July 2006 and notified to the Commission,
shall be subject to percentage reduction coefficients as set out
in the Annex to this Regulation.

2.
The quantities available under the July 2006 tranche, to be
carried over to the following tranche, and the total quantities
available for the September 2006 tranche shall be as set out in
the Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 July 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 July 2006.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 96. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 247/2006 (OJ L 42, 14.2.2006, p. 1).
(2) OJ L 37, 11.2.1998, p. 5. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 965/2006 (OJ L 176, 30.6.2006,
p. 12).

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ANNEX

Reduction percentages to be applied to quantities applied for under the July 2006 tranche and quantities carried over to
the following tranche

(a) Quota of wholly milled or semi-milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 provided for in Article 1(1)(a) of

Regulation (EC) No 327/98

Origin

Serial No

Reduction percentage for
the July 2006 tranche

United States of
America

Thailand

Australia

Other origins

09.4127

09.4128

09.4129

09.4130

(1) Issue for the quantity applied for.

0 (1)

0 (1)

0 (1)

—

Quantity carried over to
the September 2006
tranche
(t)

Total quantities available
for the September 2006
tranche
(t)

7 650,306

7 650,306

708,210

708,210

451,5

—

451,5

—

(b) Quota of husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20 provided for in Article 1(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98

Origin

Serial No

Reduction percentage for
the July 2006 tranche

Quantity carried over to
the October 2006 tranche
(t)

Total quantities available
for the October 2006
tranche
(t)

All countries

09.4148

66,8156

0

0

(c) Quota of broken rice falling within CN code 1006 40 00 provided for in Article 1(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98

Origin

Serial No

Reduction percentage for the July 2006 tranche

Thailand

Australia

Guyana

United States of America

Other origins

(1) Issue for the quantity applied for.

09.4149

09.4150

09.4152

09.4153

09.4154

0 (1)

0 (1)

0 (1)

0 (1)

98,2456

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(d) Quota of wholly milled or semi-milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 provided for in Article 1(1)(d) of

Regulation (EC) No 327/98

Origin

Serial No

Reduction percentage for
the July 2006 tranche

Quantity carried over to
the September 2006
tranche
(t)

Total quantities available
for the September 2006
tranche
(t)

Thailand

09.4112

98,4928

United States of
America

India

Pakistan

Other origins

09.4116

09.4117

09.4118

09.4119

—

—

—

—

All countries

09.4166

98,6067

0

—

—

—

—

0

0

—

—

—

—

0