L 254/82 Official Journal of the European Union 26.9.2009 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 891/2009 of 25 September 2009 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas in the sugar sector 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 agri- cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri- cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) ('), and in particular Articles 143, 144(1), 148,156 and 188(2) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof, Whereas: 1) oJ L oL oL Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years for the import and refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements (?) expires on 1 October 2009. However, certain Community tariff quotas in the sugar sector continue to exist after that date. It is therefore necessary to lay down rules on the opening and administration of those tariff quotas. Pursuant to Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of 18 June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions set out in Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the conclusion of the GATT XXIV.6 negotiations (}), the Commission is to adopt the measures for the implementation in agriculture of the concessions set out in schedule CXL (European Commu- nities) forwarded to the World Trade Organisation. Under this schedule, the Community undertook to import from India a quantity of 10 000 tonnes at zero duty of sugar products falling within CN codes 1701. In the wake of the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and then of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and then of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union, and in the context of the conclusion of the negotiations under Article XXIV of the GATT, the Community further undertook to import from third countries a quantity of raw cane sugar for refining at a rate of duty of EUR 98 per tonne. Under Article 4(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 of 18 September 2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and territories 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1. 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1. ( ( ( ( ( ( (1 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ) O) ) As ) O) ) O] ) O] ) O] ) O) participating in or linked to the European Union’s Stabili- sation and Association process, amending Regulation (EC) No 2820/98 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1763/1999 and (EC) No 6/2000 (%), imports of sugar products falling within CN codes 1701 and 1702 orig- inating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo (°) are subject to annual duty-free tariff quotas. A Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other part, was signed in Luxembourg on 12 June 2006. Pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its entry into force, an Interim Agreement on trade and trade- related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other part (°), was signed and concluded, which entered into force on 1 December 2006. A Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, was signed in Luxembourg on 16 June 2008. Pending the completion of the procedures necessary for its entry into force, an Interim Agreement on trade and trade- related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part (), was signed and concluded, which entered into force on 1 July 2008. Pursuant to Article 27(5) of and Annex IV(h) to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Croatia, of the other part (], as amended by the Protocol approved by Council Decision (EC) No 2006/882[EC (°), the Community is to allow duty-free access for imports into the Community of products originating in Croatia falling within CN codes 1701 and 1702, within the limit of an annual quantity of 180 000 tonnes (net weight). Under Article 27(2) of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part (1%, which entered into force on 1 January 2006, the Community L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1. defined in UN Security Council Resolution 1244. L 239, 1.9.2006, p. 2. L 169, 30.6.2008, p. 10. L 26, 28.1.2005, p. 3. L 341, 7.12.2006, p. 31. L 84, 20.3.2004, p. 13.