
Article 1 

1. Applications for import licences for rice originating in Egypt under the quota referred to in Regulation (EC) No 955/2005 lodged from 13.00 (Brussels time) on 1 January 2010 until 13.00 on 8 January 2010 shall be accepted for the quantities applied for multiplied by an allocation coefficient of 8,623076 %.
2. The submission of new import licence applications from 13.00 (Brussels time) on Friday 8 January 2010 is hereby suspended 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, 13 January 2010.
For the Commission, On behalf of the President,
Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development