Commission Regulation (EC) No 1080/2008 of 4 November 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006 laying down, for the marketing years 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09, detailed rules for the opening and administration of tariff quotas for raw cane-sugar for refining, originating in least developed countries, as well as detailed rules applying to the importation of products of tariff heading 1701 originating in least developed countries
Date: 2008-11-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cane sugar, import licence, import policy, least-developed country, originating product, tariff preference, tariff quota

5.11.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 296/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1080/2008

of 4 November 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006 laying down, for the marketing years 2006/07, 2007/08
and 2008/09, detailed rules for the opening and administration of tariff quotas for raw cane-sugar
for refining, originating in least developed countries, as well as detailed rules applying to the
importation of products of tariff heading 1701 originating in least developed countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of
27 June 2005 applying a
scheme of generalised tariff
preferences (1), and in particular Article 12(6) thereof,

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) (2), and in particular
Article 134 in combination with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

for

Article 5(7)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1100/2006 of 17 July 2006 laying down,
the
marketing years 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09,
detailed rules for the opening and administration of
tariff quotas for raw cane-sugar for refining, originating
in least developed countries, as well as detailed rules
applying to the
tariff
importation of products of
developed
1701
heading
in
originating
countries (3),
limits the applications for import licenses
of
to
sugar
‘approved operators’.

from Least Developed Countries

(LDC)

least

(1)

(2)

it

the amendment

1100/2006 and (EC) No 964/2007 (4) (GSP Regulation)
‘the applicant’.
provides for a more inclusive definition:
However,
introduces will become
applicable only from 1 January 2009, at the start of
application of the new period of the GSP Regulation,
and not from the beginning of the next marketing year
for sugar, which starts on 1 October 2008. In order to
avoid discrimination between operators willing to supply
the market, the new definition shall coincide with the
starting of the marketing year of sugar. Regulation (EC)
No
amended
accordingly.

1100/2006

therefore

should

be

(3)

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Generalised
Preferences Committee.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 5(7)(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006, the words
‘the approved operator’s pledge’ shall be replaced by the words
‘the applicant’s pledge’.

Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008
applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the
period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 and
(EC) No
amending Regulations
(EC) No 552/97,
(EC) No
1933/2006 and Commission Regulations

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, 4 November 2008.

For the Commission

Catherine ASHTON
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 196, 18.7.2006, p. 3.

(4) OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1.