Article 2

Applications for provisional licences referred to in Article 20(2) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 (hereinafter ‘applications’) shall be lodged with the competent authorities from 26 to 29 October 2004 at the latest.

Applications shall be admissible only if they contain all the information referred to in Article 20(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999 and if they are accompanied by the documents referred to therein.

Where, for the same group of products referred to in column 2 of Annex I to this Regulation the available quantity is divided between the Uruguay Round quota and the Tokyo Round quota, licence applications may cover only one of those quotas and shall indicate the quota concerned, specifying the identification of the group and of the quota indicated in column 3 of Annex I.

Applications shall be drawn up in accordance with the model set out in Annex II.

Applications shall cover no more than 40 % of the quantity available for the group of products indicated in column 4 of Annex I, and for the quota concerned.

Applications shall be admissible only if applicants declare in writing that they have not lodged other applications for the same group of products and the same quota and undertake not to do so.

If an applicant lodges several applications for the same group of products and the same quota in one or more Member States, all his/her applications shall be deemed inadmissible.

For the purposes of Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999, all applications lodged within the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be deemed to have been lodged on 26 October 2004.