This Regulation establishes a preferential import arrangement for imports of rice originating in Bangladesh falling within CN codes 1006 10 (excluding CN code 1006 10 10), 1006 20 and 1006 30.

The preferential import arrangement shall be limited to a quantity equivalent to 4 000 tonnes of husked rice per calendar year.

The quantities at stages of milling other than the husked-rice stage shall be converted using the conversion rates fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1312/2008.

The Commission shall adopt an implementing act suspending the application of the preferential import arrangement provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article once it ascertains that, during the year in progress, imports qualifying under the said arrangement have reached the quantity indicated in paragraph 2 of this Article. That implementing act shall be adopted without applying the procedure referred to in Article 6(2).