CELEX: 32017R1349
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1349 of 19 July 2017 suspending submission of applications for import licences under the tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 in the sugar sector

20.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 188/7
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/1349
   of 19 July 2017
   suspending submission of applications for import licences under the tariff quotas opened by Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 in the sugar sector
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (1), and in particular Article 188(1) and (3) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 (2) opened annual tariff quotas for imports of sugar products.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The quantities covered by import licence applications lodged from 1 to 7 July 2017 for the subperiod from 1 to 31 July 2017 are equal to the quantities available under order number 09.4329. Submission of further applications for import licences under this order number should be suspended until the end of the quota period.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               In order to ensure the efficient management of the measure, this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   Submission of further applications for import licences under the order numbers indicated in the Annex shall be suspended until the end of the 2016/2017 quota period.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication 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, 19 July 2017.
      
         
            For the Commission,
         
         
            On behalf of the President,
         
         Jerzy PLEWA
         
            Director-General
         
         
            Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671.
   
      (2)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 of 25 September 2009 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas in the sugar sector (OJ L 254, 26.9.2009, p. 82).
   
      ANNEX
      
                  ‘CXL concessions sugar’
                  2016/2017 Quota period
                  Applications lodged from 1 to 7 July 2017
               
            
                  Order No
               
               
                  Country
               
               
                  Further applications
               
            
                  09.4317
               
               
                  Australia
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4318
               
               
                  Brazil
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4319
               
               
                  Cuba
               
               
                  Suspended
               
            
                  09.4320
               
               
                  Any third country
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4321
               
               
                  India
               
               
                  Suspended
               
            
                  09.4329
               
               
                  Brazil
               
               
                  Suspended
               
            
                  09.4330
               
               
                  Brazil
               
               
                  Available in 2022/2023 and 2023/2024
               
            
         
      
                  ‘Balkans sugar’
                  2016/2017 Quota period
                  Applications lodged from 1 to 7 July 2017
               
            
                  Order No
               
               
                  Country
               
               
                  Further applications
               
            
                  09.4324
               
               
                  Albania
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4325
               
               
                  Bosnia and Herzegovina
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4326
               
               
                  Serbia
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4327
               
               
                  Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
               
               
                  —
               
            
         
      
                  Transitional measures, ‘exceptional import sugar’ and ‘industrial sugar’
                  2016/2017 Quota period
                  Applications lodged from 1 to 7 July 2017
               
            
                  Order No
               
               
                  Type
               
               
                  Further applications
               
            
                  09.4367
               
               
                  Transitional measures (Croatia)
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4380
               
               
                  Exceptional import
               
               
                  —
               
            
                  09.4390
               
               
                  Industrial sugar
               
               
                  —