{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/838",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 of 28 April 2004 on transitional measures for imports of bananas into the Community by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Specific reference quantity for traditional operators for the period from 1 May to 31 December 2004",
  "text": "1. The competent authority of the Member State of registration shall give each traditional operator who carried out the minimum quantity of primary imports of bananas with a view to their sale in one or more of the new Member States during one of the years in the reference period 2000, 2001 or 2002 a specific reference quantity for the period from 1 May to 31 December 2004 based on the average of primary imports which that operator carried out during the above three-year period. This reference quantity shall be established on the basis of the supporting documents referred to in Article 6(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 6(4) of Regulation (EC) No 414/2004.\nThis specific reference quantity shall be obtained by multiplying the annual average of primary imports referred to in the previous subparagraph by a coefficient of 0.667.\n2. In the light of the Member States’ notifications and the quantity fixed in Article 3, the Commission shall, if necessary, set an adjustment coefficient to be applied to the specific reference quantity of each traditional operator.\n3. The competent authorities shall inform each operator of its specific reference quantity, as adjusted where necessary by the adjustment coefficient referred to in paragraph 2, no later than the second working day following publication of the regulation fixing that coefficient.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1260/2004 of 8 July 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 on transitional measures for imports of bananas into the Community by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/838/article/6",
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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."
}