Article 3 Special provisions for system A2

Exporters shall apply to the competent bodies in the Member States for a licence under system A2 during the application periods referred to in Article 1(2) with a view to obtaining a definitive refund rate and a specific quantity of products, valid on the actual date of application.

For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘actual date of application’ means the date on which the applications referred to in the first subparagraph are deemed to have been submitted.

F1 F2Box 20 of licence applications shall contain at least one of the entries listed in Annex Ia, with the minimum rate of refund sought by the applicant in order to be able to export expressed by a whole number of euros per tonne net weight.

Licence applicants may not apply for a minimum rate higher than the indicative rate plus 50 %.

Not later than 12.00 (Brussels time) on the second working day following the licence application period, Member States shall inform the Commission, in accordance with Article 7(3), of the quantities covered by licence applications, excluding those covered by applications rejected under Article 5(4).

At the end of each licence application period, the Commission shall fix:

• the actual date of application as referred to in paragraph 1,

• the definitive refund rates applicable on that date,

• the percentages for the issue of licences deemed to have been applied for on the actual date of application,

or shall reject the applications where necessary.

Applications as referred to in paragraph 2 that seek a rate higher than the corresponding definitive rate fixed by the Commission shall be considered void.

Export licences shall be issued by the Member States on the third working day after the actual date of application.

The security shall be released in the case of applications considered void under paragraph 5 or rejected under paragraph 4.