Commission Regulation (EC) No 988/2008 of 8 October 2008 setting the allocation coefficient for the issuing of import licences applied for from 29 September to 3 October 2008 for sugar products under tariff quotas and preferential agreements
Date: 2008-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, preferential agreement, sugar, tariff quota, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 988/2008

of 8 October 2008

setting the allocation coefficient for the issuing of import licences applied for from 29 September to
3 October 2008 for 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 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),

2007/08 and 2008/09 (3), for a total quantity equal to or
exceeding the quantity available
for order number
09.4317, 09.4318, 09.4319, 09.4320, 09.4325 and
09.4365.

(2)

In these circumstances, the Commission should establish
for licences to be issued in
an allocation coefficient
proportion to the quantity available and/or inform the
Member States
the limit established has been
reached,

that

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

and preferential

agreements (2),

for

Whereas:

(1)

Applications for import licences were submitted to the
competent authorities in the period from 29 September
to 3 October 2008 in accordance with Commission
Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 and/or Council Regulation
(EC) No 508/2007 of 7 May 2007 opening tariff quotas
for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar
for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/07,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Licences shall be issued within the quantitative limits set in the
Annex to this Regulation in respect of import licence appli­
cations submitted from 29 September to 3 October 2008, in
accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
and/or Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 508/2007.

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, 8 October 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 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 122, 11.5.2007, p. 1.

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ANNEX

ACP/India Preferential Sugar

Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2007/08 marketing year

Order No

Country

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage 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

0

0

100

100

0

100

100

0

—

—

100

100

—

—

100

0

Reached

Reached

Reached

Reached

Reached

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ACP/India Preferential Sugar

Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Country

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage 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

Chapter V of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Country

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage of requested quantity to be
granted

Limit

09.4315

09.4316

India

ACP Protocol signatory countries

—

—

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CXL Concessions Sugar

Chapter VI of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Country

09.4317

09.4318

09.4319

09.4320

Australia

Brazil

Cuba

Other third countries

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage of requested quantity to be
granted

Limit

20

14,2857

21,7686

16,6666

Reached

Reached

Reached

Reached

Balkans sugar

Chapter VII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Country

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage of requested quantity to be
granted

Limit

09.4324

09.4325

09.4326

09.4327

09.4328

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia and Kosovo

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Croatia

100

100

100

100

100

Reached

Exceptional import sugar and industrial import sugar

Chapter VIII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Type

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage of requested quantity to be
granted

Limit

09.4380

09.4390

Exceptional

Industrial

—

100

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Additional EPA sugar

Chapter VIIIa of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Country

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage of requested quantity to be
granted

Limit

09.4431

09.4432

Comoros,
Seychelles, Zimbabwe

Madagascar,

Mauritius,

Burundi,
Uganda

Kenya,

Rwanda,

Tanzania,

09.4433

Swaziland

09.4434

Mozambique

09.4435

Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados,
Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
Jamaica, Saint
Grenada, Guyana, Haiti,
Kitts
Saint
Saint
and Nevis,
Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname,
Trinidad and Tobago

Lucia,

09.4436

Dominican Republic

09.4437

Fiji, Papua New Guinea

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

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

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 508/2007

2008/09 marketing year

Order No

Type

09.4365

09.4366

Bulgaria

Romania

Week of 29.9.2008-3.10.2008:
percentage of requested quantity to be
granted

100

100

Limit

Reached