{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1961/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1961/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2001/1961",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1961/2001 of 8 October 2001 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards export refunds on fruit and vegetables",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1961",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Special provisions for system A2",
  "text": "1. 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.\nFor 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.\n2. Box 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.\nLicence applicants may not apply for a minimum rate higher than the indicative rate plus 50 %.\n3. 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).\n4. At the end of each licence application period, the Commission shall fix:\nthe actual date of application as referred to in paragraph 1,\nthe definitive refund rates applicable on that date,\nthe percentages for the issue of licences deemed to have been applied for on the actual date of application,\nor shall reject the applications where necessary.\n5. 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.\n6. Export licences shall be issued by the Member States on the third working day after the actual date of application.\n7. The security shall be released in the case of applications considered void under paragraph 5 or rejected under paragraph 4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 537/2004 of 23 March 2004 adapting several regulations concerning the market of fresh fruit and vegetables by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 548/2007 of 21 May 2007 adapting several regulations concerning the export refunds on fruit and vegetables and certain products processed from them by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/1961/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:46.548739+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}