{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-544/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/544",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 544/2006 of 31 March 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 as regards the system of granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-544",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 is amended as follows:\n1.. the following Article 38a is inserted:\n‘Article 38a 1. If, after the closing date for the lodging of applications for refund certificates in respect of a particular tranche referred to in points (a) to (f) of the first paragraph of Article 33, no reduction coefficient has been published pursuant to Article 37(2), operators may lodge an application for the issue of a refund certificate for any remaining amount available for that tranche not yet applied for.\nThe application shall be lodged in the period up to the next closing date set out in points (a) to (f) of the first paragraph of Article 33.\n2. Applications lodged in the course of each week shall be notified by Member States to the Commission on the following Tuesday. The corresponding certificates may be issued from the Monday following notification, unless the Commission issues instructions to the contrary.\n3. If the total amount of the applications received in a particular application week exceeds the remaining amount available referred to in paragraph 1 the Commission shall take one or more of the following steps:\n(a) set a reduction coefficient applicable to applications for refund certificates lodged in that particular application week, which have been notified to the Commission and for which refund certificates have not yet been issued;\n(b) direct Member States to reject applications, lodged in that particular application week, which have yet to be notified to the Commission;\n(c) suspend the lodging of applications for refund certificates.’;\n2.. in Section I of Annex VI, the fifth paragraph is replaced by the following:\n‘Applicants shall enter one of the following in box 20:\nthe words “Article 33”, or other words to the satisfaction of the competent authority, if the application refers to a certificate provided for in Article 33,\nthe words “Article 38”, or other words to the satisfaction of the competent authority, if the application refers to a certificate provided for in Article 38,\nthe words “Article 38a” or other words to the satisfaction of the competent authority, if the application refers to a certificate provided for in Article 38a.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/544/article/1",
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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."
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