Commission Regulation (EC) No 1224/2007 of 19 October 2007 establishing the allocation coefficient to be applied to applications for export licences for cheese to be exported to the United States of America in 2008 under certain GATT quotas
Date: 2007-10-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: GATT, United States, cheese, export licence, quantitative restriction, tariff quota

20.10.2007

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1224/2007

of 19 October 2007

establishing the allocation coefficient to be applied to applications for export licences for cheese to
be exported to the United States of America in 2008 under certain GATT quotas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in milk
and milk products (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006
of 17 August 2006 laying down special detailed rules for the
application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as
regards export licences and export refunds for milk and milk
products (2), and in particular Article 25(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1022/2007 (3) opens
the procedure for the allocation of export licences for
cheese to be exported to the United States of America
in 2008 under the GATT quotas referred to in Article 23
of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006.

year. Allocation coefficients as provided for in Article
25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 should
therefore be fixed.

(3)

for the implementation of

Given the time limit
the
procedure of determining those coefficients, as provided
for in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1022/2007, this
Regulation should apply as soon as possible,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

licences lodged in accordance with
Applications for export
Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1022/2007 shall be accepted
subject to the application of the allocation coefficients set out in
the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

(2)

Applications for licences for some quotas and product
groups exceed the quantities available for the 2008 quota

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, 19 October 2007.

For the Commission

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

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 234, 29.8.2006, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 532/2007 (OJ L 125, 15.5.2007, p. 7).

(3) OJ L 230, 1.9.2007, p. 6.

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ANNEX

Identification of group in accordance with Additional
Notes in Chapter 4 of the Harmonised Tariff Schedule of
the United States of America

Identification of group
and quota

Quantity available for
2008
(t)

Allocation coefficient
provided for under
Article 1

Note No

(1)

16

17

18

20

21

22

25

Group

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Not specifically provided for (NSPF)

16-Tokyo

908,877

0,1698184

Blue Mould

Cheddar

Edam/Gouda

Italian type

16-Uruguay

3 446,000

0,1102623

17-Uruguay

350,000

0,0833333

18-Uruguay

1 050,000

0,2830189

20-Uruguay

1 100,000

0,1283547

21-Uruguay

2 025,000

0,0858779

Swiss or Emmenthaler cheese other
than with eye formation

22-Tokyo

22-Uruguay

393,006

380,000

0,3294250

0,3877551

Swiss or Emmenthaler cheese with
eye formation

25-Tokyo

4 003,172

0,4166784

25-Uruguay

2 420,000

0,4801587