Article 6

The Member States shall notify the Commission, on the seventh working day following that of the entry into force of this Regulation, of the quantities for which licence applications have been made.

Licences shall be issued on the twelfth working day following that of the entry into force of this Regulation, unless the Commission has taken special measures under paragraph 3.

If the Commission finds, on the basis of the information notified under paragraph 1, that licence applications exceed the quantities available for a category of importers under Article 5, it shall adopt, by means of a regulation, a single reduction percentage for the applications in question.

In that case, licences shall be issued by the competent authorities on the third working day following the entry in force of the regulation referred to in the first subparagraph. Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1870/2005 shall apply mutatis mutandis.