Commission Regulation (EC) No 1610/2006 of 27 October 2006 derogating from Regulations (EC) No 327/1998 and (EC) No 1291/2000 as regards certain import licences issued for the July 2006 tranche of tariff quotas for imports of rice and broken rice

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 1610/2006
• Articles: 4

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 327/98, at the request of their holders, the period of validity of the following import licences shall be extended to 31 December 2006:

(a)

import licences for semi-milled and wholly milled rice bearing in Section 8 ‘United States of America’ as the country of origin and issued for the July 2006 tranche of quotas bearing serial numbers 09.4127 and 09.4166, in accordance with Annex X to Regulation (EC) No 327/98, for the following CN codes:

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CN 1006 30 25 ,

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CN 1006 30 27 ,

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CN 1006 30 46 ,

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CN 1006 30 48 ,

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CN 1006 30 65 ,

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CN 1006 30 67 ,

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CN 1006 30 96 ,

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CN 1006 30 98 ;

(b)

import licences for husked rice bearing in Section 8 ‘United States of America’ as the country of origin and issued for the July 2006 tranche of the quota bearing serial number 09.4148, in accordance with Annex X to Regulation (EC) No 327/98, for the following CN codes:

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CN 1006 20 15 ,

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CN 1006 20 17 ,

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CN 1006 20 96 ,

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CN 1006 20 98 .

Article 2

1.   Notwithstanding Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, the import licences referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation may be used to import rice falling within a CN code of which the first six digits correspond with the CN code entered on the licence concerned.

2.   Notwithstanding Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, the import licences referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation issued for quotas with the serial numbers 09.4148 and 09.4166 may be used for imports of rice originating in all non-member countries, without prejudice to paragraph 1 of this Article.

Article 3

1.   Section 44 of customs declarations for imports under this Regulations shall bear the following words:

‘Imported under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1610/2006’

2.   Member States shall send the Commission, electronically and by 15 February 2007, the following information:

(a)

the quantities (tonnes) of products imported under this Regulation, broken down by combined nomenclature code (CN code),

(b)

the numbers and the dates of issue of the licences under which those products were imported.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .