{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1237/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2016/1237",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237 of 18 May 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the rules for applying the system of import and export licences and supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the rules on the release and forfeit of securities lodged for such licences, amending Commission Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 1342/2003, (EC) No 2336/2003, (EC) No 951/2006, (EC) No 341/2007 and (EC) No 382/2008 and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 2390/98, (EC) No 1345/2005, (EC) No 376/2008 and (EC) No 507/2008 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1237",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Cases where a licence is required",
  "text": "1. An import licence shall be presented for the following products:\n(a) products listed in Part I of the Annex, when they are declared for release for free circulation under all conditions, other than tariff rate quotas, save as otherwise provided in that Part I;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) products for which Part I of the Annex refers to this provision when declared for release for free circulation under tariff rate quotas administered by the method of the ‘first come, first served’ principle ...;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) products that are covered by an outward processing procedure using an export licence and that return into release for free circulation as a product listed in Section A ... of Part I of the Annex;\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. An export licence shall be presented for the following products:\n(a) products listed in Part II of the Annex;\n(b) United Kingdom products for which an export licence needs to be presented for admission under a quota that is administered by the United Kingdom or by a third country and has been opened in that country for those products;\n(c) the following United Kingdom products referred to in Part II of the Annex to be exported:\n(i)products that are under the customs procedure of inward processing;\n(ii)products that are basic products as listed in Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 510/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and that are under the customs procedure of outward processing;\n(iii)products that are subject to the repayment or remission of the amount of import or export duty as set out in Part 7 of the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 in respect of which a final decision has not yet been taken.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1)(e) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(f) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1965 of 17 August 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237 as regards the nature and type of information to be notified for licences in the rice sector (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2)(c)(iii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1409), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation (EU) No 510/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 1216/2009 and (EC) No 614/2009 (OJ L 150, 20.5.2014, p. 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."
}