Commission Regulation (EC) No 905/2008 of 17 September 2008 concerning the issue of import licences for raw cane sugar for refining, originating in the least-developed countries
Date: 2008-09-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cane sugar, import licence, least-developed country, originating product, raw sugar, sugar industry

L 249/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.9.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 905/2008

of 17 September 2008

concerning the issue of import licences for raw cane sugar for refining, originating in the least-
developed countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of
scheme of generalised tariff
27 June 2005 applying a
preferences (1),

Applications for import licences have been submitted to
the competent authorities
in the week from 8 to
12 September 2008 in accordance with Article 5 of
Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006. The weekly record
that Regulation has
referred to in Article 7(2) of
revealed that,
the total
quantity requested for the 2007/08 marketing year is
equal to the limit of 178 030,75 tonnes laid down for
this year for quota 09.4361.

following these applications,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of
the
20 February 2006 on the common organisation of
markets in the sugar sector (2),

(3)

In these circumstances, the Commission must inform the
Member States that the limit concerned has been reached
and that no further licence application is admissible,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006
of 17 July 2006 laying down, for the marketing years 2006/07,
2007/08 and 2008/09, detailed rules for the opening and admi­
nistration of tariff quotas for raw cane-sugar for refining, orig­
inating in least developed countries, as well as detailed rules
applying to the importation of products of
tariff heading
1701 originating in least developed countries (3), and in
particular Article 7(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article

In accordance with Article 12(5) of Regulation (EC) No
3(1)
980/2005,
(EC)
No 1100/2006 opens,
for imports originating in the
least-developed countries, tariff quotas at zero duty for
products falling within CN code 1701 11 10, expressed
as white sugar equivalent.

Regulation

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Import licence applications submitted from 8 to 12 September
2008 under Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006 shall
be issued for 100 % of the quantity requested.

Article 2

The limit of 178 030,75 tonnes for tariff quota 09.4361, as
provided for in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006,
has been reached. Applications for import licences submitted
after 12 September 2008 shall be inadmissible.

Article 3

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, 17 September 2008.

For the Commission

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

(1) OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 196, 18.7.2006, p. 3.