Article 3

Exporters shall apply for licences with advance fixing of the refund to the competent authorities of the Member States with a view to the grant of a refund at the rate in force on the date of submission of the application.

Licence applications shall be accompanied by:

• F1the lodging of a security of EUR 20 per tonne net weight, up to the limit of the refund rate,

• a declaration that the products to be exported have been obtained from fruit or vegetables harvested in the Community.

Licence applications and licences shall carry in box 16 the eleven-figure product code of the agricultural product nomenclature for export refunds given in Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87.

F2However, more than one code may appear simultaneously in licence applications and licences provided the codes are those of products in the same category and the rate of refund is the same.

Category, within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article 13a of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88, shall mean the following classes of products:

• dried grapes falling within CN code 0806 20,

• cherries provisionally preserved falling within CN code 0812 10,

• tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid falling within CN code 2002 10,

• fruit preserved by sugar falling within CN code 2006,

• nuts other than groundnuts, prepared, falling within CN code 2008 19,

• orange juice falling within CN codes 2009 11 and 2009 19, with a sugar content of 10° Brix or more, but less than 22° Brix,

• orange juice falling within CN codes 2009 11 and 2009 19, with a sugar content of 22° Brix or more, but less than 33° Brix,

• orange juice falling within CN codes 2009 11 and 2009 19, with a sugar content of 33° Brix or more, but less than 44° Brix,

• orange juice falling within CN codes 2009 11 and 2009 19, with a sugar content of 44° Brix or more, but less than 55° Brix,

• orange juice falling within CN codes 2009 11 and 2009 19, with a sugar content of 55° Brix or more.

Box 22 of the licence shall contain one of the entries listed in the Annex.

For each day on which applications are submitted, on operator may not submit licence applications in respect of a product for a quantity exceeding that laid down for that product during the allocation period concerned.

Where the quantity laid down is increased during the allocation period, subsequent applications may not be in respect of a quantity exceeding the difference between the quantity laid down before the increase and the quantity laid down after the increase.

Member States shall reject all applications not complying with the above provisions on the day of their submission.