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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1159/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2003/1159",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 of 30 June 2003 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06 marketing years for the import of cane sugar under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements and amending Regulations (EC) No 1464/95 and (EC) No 779/96",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1159",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Import licence applications may be presented each week from Monday to Friday. The application must indicate the marketing year or delivery period to which it relates. No later than the first working day of the following week Member States shall notify the Commission of the quantities of white sugar or raw sugar, where necessary expressed as white sugar equivalent, for which import licence applications have been presented during the preceding week, giving the marketing year concerned together with the quantities for each country of origin.\n2. The Commission shall draw up a weekly total of the quantities for which import licence applications have been presented.\n3. Where licence applications exceed the quantity of the delivery obligation by country concerned referred to in Article 9 in the case of ACP-India preferential sugar, or the quota concerned in the case of special preferential sugar or CXL concessions sugar, the Commission shall limit the issue of licences for which applications are presented in proportion to the quantity available and shall inform the Member States that the limit concerned has been reached.\n4. Where the total referred to in paragraph 2 indicates that quantities of sugar are still available for the delivery obligations in respect of ACP-India preferential sugar or for the quotas in the case of special preferential sugar or CXL concessions sugar, in respect of which the limit was already reached, the Commission shall inform the Member States that the limitin question has not been reached.\n5. Licences shall be issued on the third working day following the notification referred to in paragraph 1, unless the Commission has taken the measures referred to in paragraph 3 beforehand.\n6. Along with the notification referred to in paragraph 1, the Member States shall inform the Commission, in the case of each individual quota or delivery obligation and each country of origin, of the quantities of sugar for which import licences have been issued in the preceding week.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1409/2004 of 2 August 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06 marketing years for the import of cane sugar under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements and amending Regulations (EC) No 1464/95 and (EC) No 779/96."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1159/article/5",
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  "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."
}