Commission Regulation (EC) No 911/2008 of 18 September 2008 on the issue of licences for importing rice under the tariff quotas opened for the September 2008 subperiod by Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007
Date: 2008-09-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, import licence, originating product, overseas countries and territories, rice, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 911/2008

of 18 September 2008

on the issue of licences for importing rice under the tariff quotas opened for the September 2008
subperiod by Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri­
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri­
cultural products (single CMO Regulation) (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007
of 21 December 2007 opening and providing for the adminis­
tration in 2008 and 2009 of import quotas for rice originating
in the ACP States which are part of the Cariforum region and
the overseas
and in
particular Article 4(1) thereof,

and territories

(OCTs) (2),

countries

(2)

(3)

(4)

September is the third subperiod for the quota laid down
in Article 1(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007.

The notification sent in accordance with Article 6(a) of
Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007 shows that,
the
quotas with order numbers 09.4219 — 09.4189 —
09.4190, the applications lodged in the first seven days
of September 2008 under Article 2(1) of the Regulation
cover a quantity, in husked-rice equivalent, less than that
available.

for

The total quantities available for the following subperiod
should therefore be fixed for the quotas with order
numbers 09.4189 — 09.4190,
in accordance with
Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

rice,

Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007 opens and provides for
the administration of an annual import tariff quota for
in husked-rice
2008 of 187 000 tonnes of
equivalent, originating in States that are part of
the
Cariforum region (order number 09.4219), an import
in husked-rice
tariff quota of 25 000 tonnes of rice,
equivalent, originating in the Netherlands Antilles and
Aruba (order number 09.4189) and an import
tariff
quota of 10 000 tonnes of rice, in husked-rice equivalent,
originating in the least-developed OCTs (order number
09.4190).

Article 1

The total quantities available for the following subperiod under
the quotas with order numbers 09.4189 and 09.4190 as
referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007 are set out in
the Annex to this Regulation.

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, 18 September 2008.

For the Commission

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

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 348, 31.12.2007, p. 155.

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ANNEX

Quantities to be allocated for the September 2008 subperiod and quantities available for the following subperiod
under Regulation (EC) No 1529/2007

Origin/product

Order number

Allocation coefficient for
the
September 2008 subperiod

Quantities available
for the October 2008
subperiod
(kg)

09.4219

— (2)

States that are part of
the Cariforum region
(Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1529/
2007)

— Codes under CN 1006, except CN code

1006 10 10

OCTs (Article 1(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1529/2007)

— CN code 1006

(a) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba:

(b) Least-developed OCTs:

09.4189

09.4190

— (2)

— (1)

20 960 871

10 000 000

(1) No allocation coefficient applied for this subperiod: no licence applications were sent to the Commission.
(2) Applications cover quantities less than or equal to the quantities available: all applications are therefore acceptable.