Commission Regulation (EC) No 1047/2008 of 24 October 2008 on the issue of licences for importing rice under the tariff quotas opened for the October 2008 subperiod by Regulation (EC) No 327/98
Date: 2008-10-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: import licence, rice, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1047/2008

of 24 October 2008

on the issue of licences for importing rice under the tariff quotas opened for the October 2008
subperiod by Regulation (EC) No 327/98

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 1301/2006
of 31 August 2006 laying down common rules for the admi­
tariff quotas for agricultural products
nistration of
managed by a system of import licences (2), and in particular
Article 7(2) thereof,

import

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 327/98 of 10 February
1998 opening and providing for the administration of
certain tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken
rice (3) opened and provided for the administration of
tariff quotas for rice and broken rice,
certain import
broken down by country of origin and split
into
several subperiods in accordance with Annex IX to that
and Commission Regulation
Regulation
(EC) No
60/2008 (4)
(Regulation (EC) No 60/2008 opened a
the import
special
tariff quota for wholly milled and semi-milled rice
originating in the United States of America).

subperiod in February 2008 for

October is the only subperiod for the quota with order
number 09.4138 laid down in Article 1(1)(a) of Regu­
lation (EC) No 327/98. This quota comprises the balance
of
the unused quantities from the quotas with order
numbers 09.4127-09.4128-09.4129-09.4130 in the
previous subperiod. October is the last subperiod for
the quotas with order numbers 09.4148 and 09.4168

laid down in Article 1(1)(b) and (e) of Regulation (EC) No
327/98, which comprise the balance of the unused quan­
tities from the previous subperiod.

(3)

The notifications presented under Article 8(a) of Regu­
lation (EC) No 327/98 show that, for the quota with
order number 09.4138, the applications lodged in the
days of October 2008 under
first 10 working
Article 4(1) of that Regulation cover a quantity greater
than that available. The extent to which licences may be
issued should therefore be determined by establishing the
to be applied to the quantities
allocation coefficient
requested.

(4)

The final percentage take-up for 2008 of each quota
provided for by Regulation (EC) No 327/98 should
also be made known,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
For import licence applications for rice under the quota
with order number 09.4138 as referred to in Regulation (EC)
No 327/98 lodged in the first 10 working days of October
2008,
licences shall be issued for the quantities requested,
multiplied by the allocation coefficient set out in the Annex
to this Regulation.

2.
The final percentage take-up for 2008 of each quota
provided for by Regulation (EC) No 327/98 is given 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, 24 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 37, 11.2.1998, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 22, 25.1.2008, p. 6.

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ANNEX

Quantities to be allocated for the October 2008 subperiod under Regulation (EC) No 327/98 and final percentage take-
ups for 2008:

(a) Quota for wholly milled or semi-milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 provided for in Article 1(1)(a) of

Regulation (EC) No 327/98:

Origin

Order number

Allocation coefficient for
October 2008 subperiod

Final percentage take-up of
the quota for 2008

United States of America

Thailand

Australia

Other origins

All countries

09.4127

09.4128

09.4129

09.4130

09.4138

1,724138 %

98,99 %

100 %

82,68 %

100 %

100 %

(b) Quota for husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20 provided for in Article 1(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98:

Origin

Order number

Allocation coefficient for
October 2008 subperiod

Final percentage take-up of
the quota for 2008

All countries

09.4148

— (1)

100 %

(c) Quota for broken rice falling within CN code 1006 40 provided for in Article 1(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98:

Origin

Order number

Final percentage take-up of the
quota for 2008

Thailand

Australia

Guyana

United States of America

Other origins

09.4149

09.4150

09.4152

09.4153

09.4154

81,61 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

100 %

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(d) Quota for wholly milled or semi-milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 provided for in Article 1(1)(d) of

Regulation (EC) No 327/98:

Origin

Order number

Final percentage take-up of the
quota for 2008

Thailand

United States of America

India

Pakistan

Other origins

All countries

09.4112

09.4116

09.4117

09.4118

09.4119

09.4166

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

100 %

(e) Quota for broken rice falling within CN code 1006 40 provided for in Article 1(1)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98:

Origin

Order number

Allocation coefficient for
October 2008 subperiod

Final percentage take-up of
the quota for 2008

All countries

09.4168

— (1)

100 %

(1) No quantity remaining available for this subperiod.