Commission Regulation (EC) No 1422/2006 of 27 September 2006 on the issue of rice import licences for applications lodged in the first 10 working days of September 2006 under Regulation (EC) No 327/98
Date: 2006-09-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, quantitative restriction, rice, tariff quota, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1422/2006

of 27 September 2006

on the issue of rice import licences for applications lodged in the first 10 working days of
September 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 September 2006
tranche shows that licences should be issued for the quantities
applied for, multiplied, where appropriate, by a percentage
reduction and that the quantities available for carry-over to
the following tranche and the total quantities available for the
various quotas should be fixed,

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 September 2006 and notified to the
Commission, shall be subject to percentage reduction coeffi-
cients as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

The quantities available under

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

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 September 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 September 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 September 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 September 2006
tranche

Quantity carried over to
the October 2006 tranche
(t)

Total quantities available
for the October 2006
tranche
(t)

United States of
America

Thailand

Australia

Other origins

All countries

09.4127

09.4128

09.4129

09.4130

09.4138

(1) Issue for the quantity applied for.

0 (1)

0 (1)

0 (1)

—

—

4 835,306

260,923

15

—

—

—

—

—

—

5 111,229

(b) 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

Thailand

United States of America

India

Pakistan

Other origins

All countries

Serial No

09.4112

09.4116

09.4117

09.4118

09.4119

09.4166

Reduction percentage for the September 2006
tranche

—

—

—

—

—

—

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

Origin

Serial No

Reduction percentage for
the September 2006
tranche

Quantity carried over to
the October 2006 tranche
(t)

Total quantities available
for the October 2006
tranche
(t)

All countries

09.4168

98,59151

0

0