Article 15
United Kingdom
The subsidy shall be granted only on products of sound and fair merchantable quality.
F1If the quality requirements referred to in the first subparagraph are found not to be met when the declaration of release for consumption on Réunion is accepted, one of the entries listed in Annex IV shall be entered under ‘ Remarks ’ in section J of the control copy referred to in Article 14.
The subsidy shall be granted only on products containing, to the exclusion of any other product, a percentage of the product for which the subsidy application is made of not less than 95 %.
However, if the product consigned contains broken rice of CN code 1006 40 00 the subsidy shall be reduced as follows:
| Percentage of broken rice | Reduction in subsidy (%) |
|---|---|
| 0 to 5 | 0 |
| more than 5 to 10 | 4 |
| more than 10 to 15 | 6 |
| more than 15 to 20 | 8 |
| more than 20 to 30 | 15 |
| more than 30 to 40 | 30 |
The subsidy shall be paid only at the written request of the party concerned by the Member State on whose territory the declaration of exportation to Réunion was accepted. The Member States may provide a special form for this purpose.
Save in case of force majeure, entitlement to the subsidy shall be lost, unless the file for payment of the subsidy is lodged within twelve months following the day on which the customs export formalities were completed.
If a control copy T5 is, as a result of circumstances outside the control of the interested party, not returned to the customs office of departure or to the central body within three months of the date on which it was issued, the interested party may make application to the competent authority for other documents to be accepted as equivalent, furnishing supporting documents. These must include confirmation, from the customs office which accepted the declaration of release for consumption, that release for consumption did in fact occur.