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

24.12.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 348/79
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
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular Article 148(1) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) 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 in the schedules of 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.
(2) That quota should be opened and administered in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 (4) as ‘CXL Concessions sugar’.
(3) In order to avoid speculation of import 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.
(4) Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,