
Article 1 

1. Applications for import licences for rice originating in and coming from Egypt under the quota referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1002/2007 lodged between 22 February 2008 at 13:00 (Brussels time) and 29 February 2008 at 13:00 (Brussels time) shall be accepted for the quantities applied for multiplied by an allocation coefficient of 22,728704 %.
2. The submission of new import licence applications is suspended from 29 February 2008 at 13:00 (Brussels time) until the end of the current quota period.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 5 March 2008.
For the Commission
Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development