13.9.2008 Official Journal of the European Union L 245/5 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 892/2008 of 12 September 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 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 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector ('), and in particular Article 40(1)(e)(ii), Whereas: By Decisions 2007/626/EC (3) and 2007/627[EC (°) the Council decided to denounce, on behalf of the Community, the Agreement with India on cane sugar (Agreement with India) (¥), and Protocol 3 on ACP Sugar appearing in the ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé signed on 28 February 1975 and the corresponding declarations annexed to that Convention, contained in Protocol 3 attached to Annex V to the ACP-EC Part- nership Agreement signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (°) (Protocol 3 on ACP sugar), respectively, with effect from 1 October 2009. Certain provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 (°) therefore need to be adapted in order to take the new legal situation into account. Atrticle 7(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1528/2007 of 20 December 2007 applying the arrangements for products originating in certain states which are part of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States provided for in agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements (7) opens additional tariff rate quotas for products of tariff heading 1701 for the period from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009. Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 therefore also needs to be adapted in view of those addi- tional 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, L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. L 255, 29.9.2007, p. 37. L 255, 29.9.2007, p. 38. L 190, 23.7.1975, p. 36. L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3. L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1. L 348, 31.12.2007, p. 1. ) ) (') 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 and entered into force on 1 December 2006. The bilateral trade concessions on the Community side are equivalent to the concessions applicable within the unilateral autonomous trade measures under Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 (°). However, the definitions in Articles 1 and 2 of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 should take this new legal situation into account. 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 (19, was signed and concluded and entered into force on 1 July 2008. The bilateral trade concessions on the Community side are equivalent to the concessions applicable within the unilateral autonomous trade measures under Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000. However, the definitions in Articles 1 and 2 of Regu- lation (EC) No 950/2006 should take this new legal situation into account. Article 4(5) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 determines the first period for submission of applications for import licences. For the delivery period which runs between 1 July 2009 and 30 September 2009, sufficient time should be given to operators to organise the trade. Therefore the first period for submission of applications for import licence applications should start immediately after the publication of the delivery obligations for that period. Protocol 3 on ACP sugar and the Agreement with India will no longer bind the Community after 30 September 2009. Therefore, import licence requests should be lodged at the latest on 18 September 2009. Article 4(5) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 should be amended accordingly. 239, 1.9.2006, p. 2. o L 0] L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1. o L 169, 30.6.2008, p. 10.