Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003 is amended as follows:

1. 1..

   Article 6(2) is replaced by the following:

   ‘2.

   Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the validity of export licences for products listed in Part II(A) of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 shall expire on the 60th day following their date of issue, as defined in Article 22(1) of the above-mentioned Regulation, where no refund has been fixed, whether or not in advance, or where these products are exported without a refund, in accordance with Article 8(3) hereof.’;

2. 2..

   in Article 8, the following paragraph 3 is added:

   ‘3.

   Notwithstanding paragraph 1, export licences for products for which a refund has been fixed shall be issued, at the operator’s request, on the day on which the application is submitted, provided that the application specifies that the licence is issued without a refund and that, where an export tax is applicable upon acceptance of the export declaration, that tax applies to the products concerned. In such cases, box 20 of the application and the export licence issued must contain one of the entries shown in Annex Ia.’;

3. 3..

   in Article 12(c), the following point (iii) is added:

   1. (iii)

      ‘EUR 3 per tonne for products to which Article 8(3) applies.’;

4. 4..

   the text in the Annex to this Regulation is inserted after Annex I as Annex Ia.