Commission Regulation (EC) No 1316/2008 of 19 December 2008 on the issue of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of December 2008 under the tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 539/2007 for certain products in the egg sector and for egg albumin
Date: 2008-12-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal protein, egg, egg product, import licence, import policy, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1316/2008

of 19 December 2008

on the issue of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of December
2008 under the tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 539/2007 for certain products in the
egg sector and for egg albumin

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 admin­
istration of
for agricultural products
managed by a system of import licences (2), and in particular
Article 7(2) thereof,

tariff quotas

import

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 539/2007 of
15 May 2007 opening and providing for the administration of
tariff quotas in the egg sector and for egg albumin (3), and in
particular Article 5(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 539/2007 opened tariff quotas for
imports of egg products and egg albumin.

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

quotas,
to quantities exceeding those available. The
extent to which import licences may be issued should
therefore be determined by establishing the allocation
coefficient to be applied to the quantities requested.

The applications for import licences lodged during the
first seven days of December 2008 for the subperiod
from 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

The quantities for which import licence applications have
1.
been lodged under Regulation (EC) No 539/2007 for
the
subperiod from 1 January to 31 March 2009 shall be multiplied
by the allocation coefficients set out in the Annex hereto.

2.
The quantities for which import licence applications have
not been lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 539/2007, to
be added to the subperiod from 1 April to 30 June 2009, are
set out in the Annex hereto.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 December 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 19 December 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 128, 16.5.2007, p. 19.

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ANNEX

Group No

Order No

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

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

E1

E2

E3

09.4015

09.4401

09.4402

(1)

60,637664

(2)

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

108 000 000

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