Commission Regulation (EC) No 1498/2007 of 18 December 2007 laying down specific rules for issuing import licences for sugar and sugar and cocoa mixtures with ACP/OCTs or EC/OCTs cumulation of origin

1 Regulations (EC) No 1291/2000 and (EC) No 1301/2006 shall apply to the import at zero-rate customs duty of products falling within CN Chapter 17 and CN codes 18061030 and 18061090 with OCTs origin subject to cumulation with sugar of ACP and/or EC origin, unless otherwise provided for in this Regulation.

2 Import licences issued under this Regulation shall bear the serial number 09.4652.

For the purposes of this Regulation the concept of ‘originating products’ and the relevant administrative methods shall be those set out in Annex III to Decision 2001/822/EC.

1 Import licence applications shall relate to a quantity of not less than 25 tonnes.

2 Import licence applications shall be accompanied by the following documents: (a) the export licence issued by the OCTs authorities in accordance with the model form set out in Annex I, issued by the bodies responsible for issuing EUR 1 certificates; (b) proof that the applicant has lodged a security of EUR 12 per 100 kilograms.

The licence application and import licence shall show: (a) in section 7, the OCTs of provenance, the word ‘yes’ being marked with a cross; (b) in section 8, the OCTs of origin, the word ‘yes’ being marked with a cross; (c) in section 20 of the licence, one of the entries listed in Annex II.

Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 notwithstanding, the rights deriving from import licences shall not be transferable.

1 By way of derogation from Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, licence applications shall be submitted in the first seven days of January, April, July and October of each year. An applicant may submit only one licence application per month of submission of licence applications. Where, in a given month, applicants submit more than one application, all their applications in that month shall be rejected and the securities lodged when the applications were submitted shall be taken over by the Member State concerned.

2 Licence applications shall be notified no later than the twelfth day of the month of submission of licence applications and shall be broken down by eight-digit CN code and by OCTs of origin.

3 Import licences shall be issued by the Member States from the twenty-fifth and no later than the thirtieth day of the month of submission of licence applications.

Import licences shall become valid on their actual day of issue, within the meaning of Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000.

Regulation (EC) No 192/2002 is hereby repealed.

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