Article 6

As soon as applications submitted in accordance with Article 5 are received, the competent authority shall verify them and shall issue the refund certificate forthwith.

Member States shall use national forms for the refund certificate which, without prejudice to the other provisions of Community legislation, shall contain at least the information specified in paragraph 3.

The refund certificate shall include the information referred to in Article 5(2) and state the refund rate and the last day of its validity, which shall be the last day of the third month following the month of issue.

However, during July, August and until 24 September included, the validity of the certificates requested during the periods in question is limited to 30 days as from the day on which they are issued, without being able to exceed the limit of 30 September.

The rate of the refund applicable and stated on the certificate corresponds to that valid the day of the receipt of the request.

However, where any of the quantities of starch quoted on the certificate is processed during the cereals marketing year following that in which the application was received, the refund payable for that starch which is processed in the new marketing year shall be adjusted according to the difference between the intervention price applicable during the month of delivery of the restitution certificate, and that applicable in the month of processing, multiplied by a coefficient of 1,60. The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the refund shall be that referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006.