Commission Regulation (EC) No 32/2009 of 16 January 2009 on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of January 2009 under the tariff quota opened by Regulation (EC) No 1498/2007 for sugar and sugar and cocoa mixtures with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation of origin
Date: 2009-01-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: French overseas department and region, cocoa, import licence, import policy, originating product, sugar, tariff quota

17.1.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 13/25

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 32/2009

of 16 January 2009

on the issuing of import licences for applications lodged during the first seven days of January 2009
under the tariff quota opened by Regulation (EC) No 1498/2007 for sugar and sugar and cocoa
mixtures with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation of origin

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

regard

to Council Decision

2001/822/EC of
Having
27 November 2001 on the association of
the overseas
countries and territories with the European Community (1),
and in particular the fifth subparagraph of Article 6(4) of
Annex III thereto,

Whereas:

(1)

(EC) No

of
Commission Regulation
1498/2007
for
18 December 2007 laying down specific rules
issuing import licences for sugar and sugar and cocoa
mixtures with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation of
origin (2) opened a tariff quota for
the import of
products from the sugar sector. Article 1 of that Regu­
lation stipulates that Commission Regulation (EC) No
1301/2006 of 31 August 2006 laying down common
rules for the administration of import tariff quotas for
agricultural products managed by a system of import
licences (3) shall apply to the import of products falling
within CN Chapter 17 and CN codes 1806 10 30 and
1806 10 90 with ACP/OCT or EC/OCT cumulation of
origin.

period or subperiod, the Commission shall fix an allo­
cation coefficient, which the Member States shall apply to
the quantities covered by each licence application.

(3)

January 2009 for

The applications for import licences lodged during the
the subperiod
first seven days of
1 January to 31 March 2009 relate 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, and the submission of new
licence applications for 2009 suspended,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

With regard to import licence applications under the quota
bearing the serial number 09.4652 and lodged pursuant to
Regulation (EC) No 1498/2007 for the subperiod 1 January
to 31 March 2009, licences shall be issued for the quantities
requested, subject to the application of an allocation coefficient
of 68,292682 %.

The submission of
suspended.

further applications for 2009 is hereby

(2)

Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 provides
that where the quantities covered by licence applications
exceed the quantities available for the import tariff quota

This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 January 2009.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 16 January 2009.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 314, 30.11.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 333, 19.12.2007, p. 6.
(3) OJ L 238, 1.9.2006, p. 13.