Commission Regulation (EC) No 1017/2008 of 17 October 2008 on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of October 2008 under tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 for poultry meat
Date: 2008-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import, import licence, originating product, poultrymeat, tariff quota, third country

18.10.2008

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1017/2008

of 17 October 2008

on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of October
2008 under tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 for poultry meat

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),

(3)

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006
of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the admi­
nistration of
tariff quotas for agricultural products
managed by a system of import licences (2), and in particular
Article 7(2) thereof,

import

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 of
4 June 2007 opening and providing for the administration of
Community tariff quotas for poultry meat originating in Brazil,
third countries (3),
and in particular
Thailand and other
Article 5(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 opened tariff quotas for
imports of products in the poultry meat sector.

The applications for import licences lodged during the
first seven days of October 2008 for the subperiod
1 January to 31 March 2009 relate, for some quotas,

to quantities exceeding those available. The extent
to
which licences may be issued should therefore be
determined and an allocation coefficient laid down to
be applied to the quantities applied for.

The applications for import licences lodged during the
first seven days of October 2008 for the subperiod
1 January to 31 March 2009 do not, for some quotas,
cover the total quantity available. The quantities for
which applications have not been lodged should
therefore be determined and these should be added to
the quantity fixed for the following quota subperiod,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
The quantities for which import licence applications have
been lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 for the
subperiod 1 January to 31 March 2009 shall be multiplied by
the allocation coefficients set out in the Annex to this Regu­
lation.

2.
The quantities for which import licence applications have
not been lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 616/2007, to
be added to the subperiod 1 April to 30 June 2009, are set out
in the Annex to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 October 2008.

Article 2

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 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 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 142, 5.6.2007, p. 3.

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ANNEX

Group No

Order No

Allocation coefficient for import licence applications lodged for the
subperiod 1.1.2009-31.3.2009
(%)

Quantities not applied for to be
added to the subperiod
1.4.2009-30.6.2009
(kg)

2

5

6

8

09.4212

09.4215

09.4216

09.4218

(1)

21,124188

(2)

(1)

(1) Not applied: no licence application has been sent to the Commission.
(2) Not applied: the applications do not cover the total quantity available.

74 088 000

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3 757 020

9 126 800