Commission Regulation (EC) No 1284/2008
of 17 December 2008
setting the allocation coefficient for the issuing of import licences applied for from 8 to 12 December 2008 for 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 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation),
OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09 marketing years for the import and refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements, and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,
OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1.
Whereas:
(1) Applications for import licences were submitted to the competent authorities in the period from 8 to 12 December 2008 in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 and/or Council Regulation (EC) No 508/2007 of 7 May 2007 opening tariff quotas for imports into Bulgaria and Romania of raw cane sugar for supply to refineries in the marketing years 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09, for a total quantity equal to or exceeding the quantity available for order number 09.4337 (July-September 2009).
OJ L 122, 11.5.2007, p. 1.
(2) In these circumstances, the Commission should establish an allocation coefficient for licences to be issued in proportion to the quantity available and/or inform the Member States that the limit established 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 import licence applications submitted from 8 to 12 December 2008, in accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 and/or Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 508/2007.
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, 17 December 2008.
For the Commission
Jean-Luc Demarty
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
ANNEX

ACP/India Preferential Sugar
Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Country	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage 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	—	
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	100	

ACP/India Preferential Sugar
Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
July-September 2009 marketing year
Order No	Country	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4331	Barbados	—	
09.4332	Belize	—	
09.4333	Côte d’Ivoire	—	
09.4334	Republic of the Congo	—	
09.4335	Fiji	—	
09.4336	Guyana	—	
09.4337	India	100	Reached
09.4338	Jamaica	—	
09.4339	Kenya	—	
09.4340	Madagascar	—	
09.4341	Malawi	—	
09.4342	Mauritius	—	
09.4343	Mozambique	100	
09.4344	Saint Kitts and Nevis	—	
09.4345	Suriname	—	
09.4346	Swaziland	—	
09.4347	Tanzania	—	
09.4348	Trinidad and Tobago	—	
09.4349	Uganda	—	
09.4350	Zambia	—	
09.4351	Zimbabwe	—	

Complementary sugar
Chapter V of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Country	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4315	India	—	
09.4316	ACP Protocol signatory countries	—	

CXL Concessions Sugar
Chapter VI of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Country	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage 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
Chapter VII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Country	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4324	Albania	100	
09.4325	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	Reached
09.4326	Serbia and Kosovo	100	
09.4327	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	100	
09.4328	Croatia	100	
As defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.			

Exceptional import sugar and industrial import sugar
Chapter VIII of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Type	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4380	Exceptional	—	
09.4390	Industrial	100	

Additional EPA sugar
Chapter VIIIa of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Country	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4431	Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe	100	
09.4432	Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda	100	
09.4433	Swaziland	100	
09.4434	Mozambique	0	Reached
09.4435	Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago	0	Reached
09.4436	Dominican Republic	0	Reached
09.4437	Fiji, Papua New Guinea	100	

Import of sugar under the transitional tariff quotas opened for Bulgaria and Romania
Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 508/2007
2008/09 marketing year
Order No	Type	Week of 8.12.2008-12.12.2008: percentage of requested quantity to be granted	Limit
09.4365	Bulgaria	0	Reached
09.4366	Romania	100	