Article 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 %.

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.