Article 2
United Kingdom
Regulation (EC) No 2449/96 is amended as follows:
- 1..
The following paragraphs are added to Article 1:
‘The quotas referred to in points 1, 2 and 3 of the first subparagraph shall bear the serial numbers 09.4009, 09.4011 and 09.4010 respectively.
For the quota referred to in point 4 of the first subparagraph, the serial numbers 09.4021 and 09.4012 shall be allocated to the part of the quota reserved for the import of products of a kind used for human consumption (2 000 tonnes) and to the other part which is not so reserved (30 000 tonnes) respectively.
Commission Regulations (EC) No 1291/2000f1, (EC) No 1342/2003f2 and (EC) No 1301/2006f3 shall apply, save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.’
- 2..
Article 6(b) is replaced by the following:
- (b)
‘in section 24, one of the entries shown in Annex IV.’
- (b)
- 3..
Article 8 is amended as follows:
- (a)
Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
‘3.On the day following the day on which applications are lodged, and no later than 13.00 on the Thursday following the deadline for lodging applications laid down in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, Member States shall send the Commission the following information:
(a)the total quantities covered by licence applications, by origin and product code;
(b)the number of the certificate of origin submitted and the total quantity entered in the original document or an extract thereof;
(c)the reference numbers of the export certificates issued by the Indonesian or Chinese authorities and the corresponding quantities, and the name of the vessel.’
- (b)
Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
‘Import licences shall be issued on the fourth working day following the notification referred to in paragraph 3.’
- (a)
- 4..
In the third subparagraph of Article 10(2), the last sentence is replaced by the following:
‘Section 20 of additional import licences shall also contain one of the entries shown in Annex V.’
- 5..
Article 11 is amended as follows:
- (a)
The second paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘Licences issued pursuant to this Regulation shall be valid throughout the Community for 60 days from their actual day of issue pursuant to Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000.’
- (b)
The following paragraph is added:
‘The final day of validity of the import licences may not exceed 31 December of the year of issue.’
- (a)
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Annexes IV and V, as shown in Annex II to this Regulation, are added.