Article 5

United Kingdom

Applications for import licences shall be submitted to the competent body in the importing Member State concerned.

Within the limits referred to in Article 6(2), applications for import licences for sugar for refining within the framework of the traditional supply need referred to in Article 29(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, may be submitted, for the marketing year concerned, only to the competent bodies in the Member States, by:

the full-time refiners of the Member State concerned, until 30 June of the marketing year,
any full-time Community refiner, as from 30 June until the end of the marketing year.

In the case of the imports referred to in Article 3(1), applications for import licences may be submitted from the first day of the marketing year until the date of limiting the issue of import licences referred to in Article 6(2).

In the case of the imports referred to in Article 3(2), applications for import licences may be submitted from the first day of the import period to which they relate.

Applications for import licences shall be submitted to the competent body in the Member State in which the applicant is registered for VAT purposes.

Only one application for an import licence per order number per week per applicant shall be allowed. Where, in a particular week, more than one application is submitted by an applicant for a particular order number, all of the applicant’s applications for that order number for that week shall be rejected and the securities lodged therefore shall accrue to the Member State concerned.

Applications for import licences shall indicate the marketing year to which they relate, and whether the sugar is for refining or for purposes other than refining.

Applications for import licences shall be accompanied by:

(a)

proof that the applicant has lodged a security of EUR 20 per tonne of the quantity of sugar indicated in Box 17 of the application for an import licence;

(b)

the original of the export licence (conforming to the specimen appearing in the Annex), issued by the authorities in the exporting beneficiary country, for an amount equal to that given in the application for an import licence;

(c)

in the case of sugar for refining, a declaration by the operator approved in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 that the quantity will be refined before the end of the three-month period following the end of the period of validity of the import licence;

(d)

the approved operator’s pledge to make sure that the purchase price paid is at least equal to the guaranteed price referred to in Article 30(1) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, as well as a copy of a binding document relating to the transaction and signed by both the buyer and the supplier.

A copy, certified by the competent authorities in the exporting beneficiary country, of the certificate of origin Form A provided for in Article 9(1) may be used in place of the export licence referred to in (b).

Applications for import licences, as well as the licences issued, shall include the following entries:

(a)

in Box 8: the country or countries of origin (the country or countries included in the special arrangement for least developed countries, according to column D of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 980/2005),

(b)

in Boxes 17 and 18: the quantity of sugar, expressed as ‘white-sugar equivalent’,

(c)

in Box 20:

in the case of the imports referred to in Article 3(1):

‘Raw cane-sugar for refining, imported pursuant to Article 12(5) of Regulation (EC) No 980/2005. Order No …’

(the order number indicated in Article 3(1) for the marketing year concerned)

(or at least one of the equivalent phrases in another official Community language).
in the case of the imports referred to in Article 3(2):

‘Sugar imported pursuant to Article 12(4) of Regulation (EC) No 980/2005. Reference No …’

(the reference number indicated in Article 3(2) for the import period concerned)

(or at least one of the equivalent phrases in another official Community language).