Commission Regulation (EC) No 653/2008 of 9 July 2008 setting the allocation coefficient for issuing of licences applied for from 30 June to 4 July 2008 to import sugar products under tariff quotas and preferential agreements
Date: 2008-07-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, import licence, preferential agreement, quantitative restriction, sugar, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 653/2008

of 9 July 2008

setting the allocation coefficient for issuing of licences applied for from 30 June to 4 July 2008 to
import sugar products under tariff quotas and preferential agreements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of
the
20 February 2006 on the common organisation of
markets in the sugar sector (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 of
28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the 2006/07,
2007/08 and 2008/09 marketing years for importing and
refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and prefer-
ential agreements (2), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Applications for import licences were submitted to the
competent authority during the period from 30 June to
4 July 2008,
in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
(EC) No
950/2006
1832/2006 of 13 December 2006 laying down transi-
tional measures in the sugar sector by reason of the

Commission

Regulation

or

accession of Bulgaria and Romania (3) for a total quantity
equal to or exceeding the quantity available for serial
number 09.4340 (2007 to 2008).

(2)

In these circumstances, the Commission should fix an
allocation coefficient
in
in order
proportion to the quantity available and inform the
Member States that the set limit has been reached,

to issue licences

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Licences shall be issued within the quantitative limits set in the
Annex to this Regulation in respect of applications for import
licences submitted from 30 June to 4 July 2008, in accordance
with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 or Article 5
of Regulation (EC) No 1832/2006.

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, 9 July 2008.

For the Commission

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

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation
L 283,
27.10.2007, p. 1). Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 will be replaced
by Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) as
from 1 October 2008.

(EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ

(2) OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 371/2007 (OJ L 92, 3.4.2007, p. 6).

(3) OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 8.

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ANNEX

ACP-India Preferential Sugar

Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2007/2008 marketing year

Serial No

Country

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

Limit

09.4331

09.4332

09.4333

09.4334

09.4335

09.4336

09.4337

09.4338

09.4339

09.4340

09.4341

09.4342

09.4343

09.4344

09.4345

09.4346

09.4347

09.4348

09.4349

09.4350

09.4351

Barbados

Belize
Côte d’Ivoire

Republic of the Congo

Fiji

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

100

100

100

—

100

100

0

100

100

Reached

24,6827

Reached

100

100

0

—

—

100

100

—

—

100

0

Reached

Reached

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ACP-India Preferential Sugar

Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/2009 marketing year

Serial No

Country

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

Limit

09.4331

09.4332

09.4333

09.4334

09.4335

09.4336

09.4337

09.4338

09.4339

09.4340

09.4341

09.4342

09.4343

09.4344

09.4345

09.4346

09.4347

09.4348

09.4349

09.4350

09.4351

Barbados

Belize
Côte d’Ivoire

Republic of the Congo

Fiji

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Reached

100

100

100

100

100

100

0

100

100

100

100

100

100

—

—

100

100

100

—

100

100

Complementary Sugar

Title V of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2007/2008 marketing year

Serial No

Country

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

Limit

09.4315

09.4316

India

ACP Protocol signatory countries

100

100

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CXL Concessions Sugar

Title VI of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2007/2008 marketing year

Serial No

Country

09.4317

09.4318

09.4319

09.4320

Australia

Brazil

Cuba

Other third countries

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

Limit

0

0

0

0

Reached

Reached

Reached

Reached

Balkans sugar

Title VII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2007/2008 marketing year

Serial No

Country

09.4324

09.4325

09.4326

09.4327

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo

Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia

09.4328

Croatia

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

Limit

Reached

100

0

100

100

100

Exceptional import sugar and industrial import sugar

Title VIII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2007/2008 marketing year

Serial No

Type

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

Limit

09.4380

09.4390

Exceptional

Industrial

—

—

Import of sugar under the transitional tariff quotas opened for Bulgaria and Romania

Chapter 1 Section 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1832/2006

2007/2008 marketing year

Order No

Type

09.4365

09.4366

Bulgaria

Romania

Week of
30.6.2008-4.7.2008: % of requested
quantity to be granted

0

0

Limit

Reached

Reached