Commission Regulation (EC) No 1346/2008 of 23 December 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years for the import and refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements
Date: 2008-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cane sugar, import, import licence, marketing, preferential agreement, sugar refining, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1346/2008

of 23 December 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2006/2007,
2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years for the import and refining of sugar products under
certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

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

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), and in particular
Article 148(1) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

In accordance with the Agreement in the form of an
Exchange of Letters between the European Community
and the Republic of Cuba pursuant to Article XXIV:6 and
Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of
concessions
the Republic of
Bulgaria and Romania in the course of their accession
to the European Union (2), approved by Council Decision
2008/870/EC (3), the Community has undertaken to add,
for the marketing year 2008/2009, a country allocation
for Cuba of 20 000 tonnes of raw cane sugar for refining
at a rate of duty of EUR 98 per tonne.

schedules of

in the

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 24, paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the

following:

‘1.
For the 2008/2009 marketing year, tariff quotas for a
total of 126 925 tonnes of raw cane sugar for refining,
falling within CN code 1701 11 10, shall be opened as
CXL concessions sugar at a duty of EUR 98 per tonne.

The quantities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be

2.
allocated by country of origin as follows:

That quota should be opened and administered in
accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No
950/2006 (4) as ‘CXL Concessions sugar’.

import

In order to avoid speculation of
licences for
country allocated import quotas, provisions should be
made to restrict the application for import licences to
those operators who can present an export
licence
issued by a competent authority of
the exporting
country.

— Cuba

— Brazil

— Australia

78 969 tonnes,

34 054 tonnes,

9 925 tonnes,

— other third countries

3 977 tonnes.’

2. In Article 25, the following paragraph is added:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 308, 19.11.2008, p. 29.
(3) OJ L 308, 19.11.2008, p. 27.
(4) OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1.

‘Import
licence applications relating to Cuba, Brazil and
Australia shall be accompanied by the original of
the
export licence issued by the competent authorities of the
exporting country in accordance with the model in Annex
II for a quantity equal to that in the licence application.’

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission