Commission Regulation (EC) No 13/2007Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 13/2007

of 10 January 2007

setting the allocation coefficient for issuing of licences applied for from 1 to 5 January 2007 to import sugar products under tariff quotas and preferential agreements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector(1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09 marketing years for importing and refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements(2), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Applications for import licences were submitted to the competent authority during the week of 1 to 5 January 2007, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 or Commission Regulation (EC) No 1832/2006 of 13 December 2006 laying down transitional measures in the sugar sector by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania(3) for a total quantity equal to or exceeding the quantity available for serial number 09.4365.

(2) In these circumstances, the Commission should fix an allocation coefficient in order to issue licences in proportion to the quantity available and inform the Member States that the set limit has been reached,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Licences shall be issued within the quantitative limits set in the Annex to this Regulation in respect of applications for import licences submitted from 1 to 5 January 2007, in accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 or Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1832/2006.

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, 10 January 2007.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc Demarty

Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

ANNEX

ACP-India Preferential Sugar

Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2006/07 marketing year

Serial No	Country	Week of 1 to 5 January 2007: % of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4331	Barbados	100
09.4332	Belize	100
09.4333	Côte d’Ivoire	100
09.4334	Republic of the Congo	100
09.4335	Fiji	100
09.4336	Guyana	100
09.4337	India	0	Reached
09.4338	Jamaica	100
09.4339	Kenya	100
09.4340	Madagascar	100
09.4341	Malawi	100
09.4342	Mauritius	100
09.4343	Mozambique	0	Reached
09.4344	Saint Kitts and Nevis	100
09.4345	Suriname	—
09.4346	Swaziland	100
09.4347	Tanzania	100
09.4348	Trinidad and Tobago	100
09.4349	Uganda	—
09.4350	Zambia	100
09.4351	Zimbabwe	0	Reached

Complementary Sugar

Title V of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2006/07 marketing year

Serial No	Country	Week of 1 to 5 January 2007: % of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4315	India	100
09.4316	ACP Protocol signatory countries	100

CXL Concessions Sugar

Title VI of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2006/07 marketing year

Serial No	Country	Week of 1 to 5 January 2007: % of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4317	Australia	0	Reached
09.4318	Brazil	0	Reached
09.4319	Cuba	0	Reached
09.4320	Other third countries	0	Reached

Balkans sugar

Title VII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006

2006/07 marketing year

Serial No	Country	Week of 1 to 5 January 2007: % of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4324	Albania	100
09.4325	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	Reached
09.4326	Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo	100
09.4327	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	100
09.4328	Croatia	100

Import of sugar under the transitional tariff quotas opened for Bulgaria and Romania

Chapter 1 Section 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1832/2006

2006/07 marketing year

Order No	Type	Week of 1 to 5 January 2007: % of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4365	Bulgaria	100	Reached
09.4366	Romania	100

(1)

OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1.

(2)

OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2006/2006 (OJ L 379, 28.12.2006, p. 95).

(3)

OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 8.