# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2076 of 18 November 2015 opening and providing for the administration of Union import tariff quotas for fresh and frozen pigmeat originating in Ukraine, Article 3: Import rights applications and allocation of import rights

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Applications for import rights shall be submitted in the first 7 days of the month preceding each of the subperiods referred to in Article 2.
2. A security of EUR 20 per 100 kilograms shall be lodged at the time of submission of an import rights application.
3. Applicants for import rights shall, when presenting their first application for a given quota year, submit the proof that a quantity of pigmeat products falling under CN codes 0203 has been imported by them or on their behalf under the relevant customs provisions (‘the reference quantity’). Such proof shall relate to the 12 months' period ending 1 month before their first application. A company formed by the merger of companies, each having an imported reference quantity, may combine those reference quantities as a basis for its application.
4. The total quantity of products covered by an application for import rights submitted in one of the subperiods referred to in Article 2 shall not exceed 25 % of the applicant's reference quantity. A competent authority shall reject applications not complying with this rule.
5. Member States shall notify the Commission, by the 14th day of the month in which applications are submitted, of the total quantities, including nil returns, of all applications, expressed in kilograms of product weight and broken down by order number.
6. Import rights shall be awarded as from the 23rd day of the month in which applications are submitted and at the latest by the last day of that month.
7. Where the application of the allocation coefficient referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 results in fewer import rights to be allocated than had been applied for, the security lodged in accordance with Article 3(2) of this Regulation shall be released proportionally without delay.
8. Import rights shall be valid from the first day of the subperiod for which the application has been submitted until 31 December of each import tariff quota period. Import rights shall not be transferable.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/2076/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2076/article-3
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