Article 5

Each application for import rights for production of A-products or B-products shall be expressed in bone-in equivalence.

For the purpose of this paragraph 100 kilograms of bone-in beef equals 77 kilograms of boneless beef.

Each application for import rights for production of either A-products or B-products shall reach the competent authority no later than the second Friday following the date of publication of the present regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union by 13.00 Brussels time at the latest.

Member States shall forward to the Commission no later than the fourth Friday following the date of publication in the Official Journal of the European Union a list of applicants and quantities applied for under each of the two categories together with the approval numbers of the processing establishments concerned.

All communications, including nil returns, shall be sent by fax or e-mail using the forms set out in Annexes I and II.

The Commission shall decide as soon as possible to what extent applications are accepted, where necessary as a percentage of the quantity applied for.