Article 34
United Kingdom
Where, after the closing date for the submission of applications for refund certificates in respect of a particular tranche referred to in Article 29(1), no reduction coefficient has been published pursuant to Article 33(1), operators may submit an application for the issue of a refund certificate for any remaining amount available for that tranche not yet applied for.
The application shall be submitted in the period up to the next closing date set out in Article 29(1).
Applications submitted in the course of each week shall be notified by Member States to the Commission on the following Monday. The corresponding certificates may be issued from the Wednesday following the notification, unless the Commission issues instructions to the contrary.
Where the total amount for which the applications are 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 measures:
set a reduction coefficient applicable to applications for refund certificates submitted in that particular application week, which have been notified to the Commission and for which refund certificates have not yet been issued;
direct Member States to reject applications, submitted in that particular application week, which have yet to be notified to the Commission;
suspend the submission of applications for refund certificates.
Any Regulation adopted pursuant to paragraph 3 shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union within three days of notification of the applications referred to in paragraph 2.