L 231/12 Official Journal of the European Union 29.8.2008 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 850/2008 of 28 August 2008 opening the procedure for the allocation of export licences for cheese to be exported to the United States of America in 2009 under certain GATT quotas THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in 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 Article 171(1) thereof, in conjunction with Article 4, Whereas: (1) Section 2 of Chapter IIl of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 of 17 August 2006 laying down special detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as regards export licences and export refunds for milk and milk products (3 provides that export licences for cheese exported to the United States of America as part of the quotas under the agreements concluded during multilateral trade nego- tiations may be allocated according to a special procedure by which preferred importers in the USA may be designated. (2)  That procedure should be opened for exports during 2009 and the additional rules relating to it should be determined. (3)  In administering imports the competent authorities in the USA make a distinction between the additional quota granted to the European Community under the Uruguay Round and the quotas resulting from the Tokyo Round. Export licences should be allocated taking into account the eligibility of those products for the USA quota in question as described in the Harmonised Tariff Schedule of the United States of America. (4  With a view to exporting the maximum quantity under the quotas for which there is moderate interest, appli- cations covering the whole quota quantity should be allowed. () O] L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 510/2008 (O] L 149, 7.6.2008, p. 61). () OJ L 234, 29.8.2006, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 532/2007 (O] L 125, 15.5.2007, p. 7). accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Export licences for products falling within CN code 0406 and listed in Annex I to this Regulation to be exported to the United States of America in 2009 under the quotas referred to in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 shall be issued in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter IIl of that Regulation and with the provisions of this Regulation. Atrticle 2 1. Applications for licences referred to in Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 12822006 (hereinafter referred to as appli- cations) shall be lodged with the competent authorities from 1 to 10 September 2008 at the latest. 2. Applications shall be admissible only if they contain all the information referred to in Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 and if they are accompanied by the documents referred to therein. Where, for the same group of products referred to in column 2 of Annex I to this Regulation the available quantity is divided between the Uruguay Round quota and the Tokyo Round quota, licence applications may cover only one of those quotas and shall indicate the quota concerned, specifying the identification of the group and of the quota indicated in column 3 of that Annex. Information referred to in Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1282/2006 shall be presented in accordance with the model set out in Annex II to this Regulation. 3. As regards the quotas identified by 22-Tokyo and 22- Uruguay in column 3 of Annex I, applications shall cover at least 10 tonnes and shall not exceed the quantity available under the quota concerned as set out in column 4 of that Annex.