Commission Regulation (EC) No 1610/2006 of 27 October 2006 derogating from Regulations (EC) No 327/1998 and (EC) No 1291/2000 as regards certain import licences issued for the July 2006 tranche of tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken rice
Date: 2006-10-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United States, derogation from EU law, import licence, rice, tariff quota

28.10.2006

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1610/2006

of 27 October 2006

derogating from Regulations (EC) No 327/1998 and (EC) No 1291/2000 as regards certain import
licences issued for the July 2006 tranche of tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of 18
June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions set out in
Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the conclusion of the
GATT XXIV(6) negotiations (1), and in particular Article 1
thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 of 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in
rice (2), and in particular Article 13(4) thereof,

Whereas:

Under Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98 of 10
February 1998 opening and providing for the adminis-
tration of certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and
broken rice (3),
licences issued for imports of husked,
semi-milled and wholly milled rice under the quotas
opened by that Regulation are valid from their actual
day of issue until the end of the third month thereafter.

market of long A and long B rice originating in the
United States of America is subject to the presentation
of an analytical report demonstrating that the product
does not contain genetically modified rice ‘LL RICE 601’.

In order to prevent the emergency measures laid down
by Decision 2006/601/EC preventing the use, during
their period of validity, of licences issued for imports
of
long A and long B rice originating in the United
States of America under the July 2006 tranche of the
quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 327/98,
their
period of validity should be extended until the end of
2006.

In addition, in order to allow the use of licences already
issued for ‘all country’ import quotas and with the United
States of America indicated as country of origin, the use
of those licences should be authorised for the import of
rice originating in all non-member countries.

The use of
licences already issued should also be
authorised for rice other than long A and long B rice.

Derogations should therefore be made from Regulation
(EC) No 327/98 and from Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1291/2000 of 9 June 2000 laying down common
detailed rules for the application of the system of import
and export licences and advance fixing certificates for
agricultural products (5).

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

the pattern of

Since August 2006,
imports into the
European Union of rice originating in the United States
of America has been disturbed by the appearance on the
US market of
contaminated with genetically
rice
modified rice known as ‘LL RICE 601’.

(8)

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

Under Article 2 of Commission Decision 2006/601/EC
of 5 September 2006 on emergency measures regarding
the non-authorised genetically modified organism ‘LL
RICE 601’
the placing on the

in rice products (4),

(1) OJ L 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 96. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 797/2006 (OJ L 144, 31.5.2006, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 37, 11.2.1998, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 965/2006 (OJ L 176, 30.6.2006, p. 12).

(4) OJ L 244, 7.9.2006, p. 27.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98, at
the
the request of
following import licences shall be extended to 31 December
2006:

the period of validity of

their holders,

(5) OJ L 152, 24.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1282/2006 (OJ L 234, 29.8.2006, p. 4).

(1)

(2)

(3)

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(a)

licences for semi-milled and wholly milled rice
import
bearing in Section 8 ‘United States of America’ as the
country of origin and issued for the July 2006 tranche of
quotas bearing serial numbers 09.4127 and 09.4166,
in
accordance with Annex X to Regulation (EC) No 327/98,
for the following CN codes:
— CN 1006 30 25,
— CN 1006 30 27,
— CN 1006 30 46,
— CN 1006 30 48,
— CN 1006 30 65,
— CN 1006 30 67,
— CN 1006 30 96,
— CN 1006 30 98;

(b) import licences for husked rice bearing in Section 8 ‘United
States of America’ as the country of origin and issued for
the July 2006 tranche of the quota bearing serial number
09.4148, in accordance with Annex X to Regulation (EC)
No 327/98, for the following CN codes:
— CN 1006 20 15,
— CN 1006 20 17,
— CN 1006 20 96,
— CN 1006 20 98.

this Regulation may be used to import rice falling within a
CN code of which the first six digits correspond with the CN
code entered on the licence concerned.

the import

Notwithstanding Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No
2.
1291/2000,
licences referred to in Article 1 of
this Regulation issued for quotas with the serial numbers
09.4148 and 09.4166 may be used for imports of rice origi-
nating in all non-member countries, without prejudice to
paragraph 1 of this Article.

Article 3

Section 44 of customs declarations for imports under this

1.
Regulations shall bear the following words:

‘Imported
1610/2006’

under

Commission

Regulation

(EC) No

2. Member States shall send the Commission, electronically
and by 15 February 2007, the following information:

(a)

the quantities (tonnes) of products imported under this
Regulation, broken down by combined nomenclature code
(CN code),

(b) the numbers and the dates of issue of the licences under

which those products were imported.

Article 2

Article 4

1.
1291/2000,

Notwithstanding Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No
licences referred to in Article 1 of

the import

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication 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, 27 October 2006

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission