Commission Regulation (EC) No 78/2007 of 26 January 2007 on the issue of import licences against applications lodged between 1 and 17 January 2007 within the framework of the tariff quota opened pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 327/98 on rice
Date: 2007-01-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, quantitative restriction, rice, tariff quota, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 78/2007

of 26 January 2007

on the issue of import licences against applications lodged between 1 and 17 January 2007 within
the framework of the tariff quota opened pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 327/98 on rice

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 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the markets
in rice (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006
of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the admin-
for agricultural products
istration of
managed by a system of import licences (2), and in particular
Article 7(2) thereof,

tariff quotas

import

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 327/98 (3) opened and
provided for the administration of certain import tariff
quotas for rice and broken rice, broken down by country
of origin and split into several sub-periods in accordance
with Annex IX of the Regulation.

January is the first sub-period for the quotas provided for
in points (a), (b), (c) and (d) of Article 1(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 327/98.

follows

from the communications

It
received under
Article 8(a) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98 that in the
case of quotas bearing serial numbers 09.4148, 09.4154,
09.4112, 09.4117, 09.4118, 09.4119 and 09.4166

applications lodged between 1 and 17 January 2007 in
accordance with Article 4(1) of the Regulation relate to a
quantity exceeding that available. The extent to which
import
licences may be issued should therefore be
determined and the allocation coefficient laid down to
be applied to the quantities applied for.

(4)

The total available quantities for the following sub-period
should also be fixed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
Applications for an import licence for rice covered by
quotas bearing serial numbers 09.4127, 09.4128, 09.4148,
09.4149, 09.4150, 09.4152, 09.4153, 09.4154, 09.4112,
09.4116, 09.4117, 09.4118, 09.4119 and 09.4166 specified
in Regulation (EC) No 327/98 and lodged between 1 and 17
January 2007 shall be issued certificates for the quantities
applied for subject to coefficients set out in the Annex to this
Regulation.

The total available quantities for the following sub-period

2.
are set out in the Annex.

Article 2

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, 26 January 2007.

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

(2) OJ L 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 37, 11.2.1998, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2019/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 48).

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ANNEX

Allocation coefficients to be applied to quantities applied for in respect of the January 2007 sub-period, quantities carried
over to the following sub-period and total available quantities for the following sub-period:

(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 number

Allocation coefficient for
the January 2007
sub-period

Total quantities available
for the April 2007
sub-period
(t)

United States of America

Thailand

Australia

Other origins

09.4127

09.4128

09.4129

09.4130

100 %

100 %

—

—

28 107,000

9 219,519

1 019,000

1 805,000

‘—’: no allocation coefficient for this sub-period.

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

Origin

Serial number

Allocation coefficient for
the January 2007
sub-period

Total quantities available
for the July 2007
sub-period
(t)

All countries

09.4148

8,206106 %

—

‘—’: no quota for this sub-period.

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

327/98:

Thailand

Australia

Guyana

United States of America

Other origins

Origin

Serial number

Allocation coefficient for
the January 2007
sub-period

Total quantities available
for the July 2007
sub-period
(t)

09.4149

09.4150

09.4152

09.4153

09.4154

100 %

41 517,399

0 %

0 %

16 000,000

11 000,000

100 %

8 600,000

1,810418 %

6 000,000

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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 number

Thailand

United States of America

India

Pakistan

Other origins

All countries

‘—’: no quota for this sub-period.

09.4112

09.4116

09.4117

09.4118

09.4119

09.4166

Allocation coefficient for
the January 2007
sub-period

Total quantities available
for the July 2007
sub-period
(t)

1,537475 %

—

100 %

2 107,000

1,41304 %

1,444223 %

1,515957 %

—

—

—

1,264717 %

17 011,000