{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1239/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1239/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1239",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1239 of 18 May 2016 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the system of import and export licences (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1239",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Replacement and duplicate licences ...",
  "text": "1. Where a paper licence ... issued for products referred to in Article 2(1)(a) or (2)(a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237 is partly or totally destroyed, or lost, the titular holder or transferee may request the licence issuing authority to issue a replacement licence .... The replacement licence ... substitutes the original licence ..., including all rights and obligations concerned.\nFor replacement licences under this paragraph a security shall be lodged as set out in Article 5.\nIf the lost or partially destroyed original licence is found, the titular holder shall return the original licence to the licence issuing authority, who shall release the remaining security for the original licence forthwith.\n2. A replacement licence ... may only be issued once and for the period of validity and the balance of quantity remaining available for the original licence ....\nA replacement licence ... shall not be issued where the issue of licences ... for the product in question is suspended or where it concerns an ... export tariff rate quota.\n3. The security for the replacement licence, together with the security for the original licence if it was not found, shall be released in accordance with Article 14.\n4. Where the request concerns a partly or totally destroyed licence ... issued for products other than those referred to in Article 2(1)(a) and (2)(a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237, the following conditions shall apply:\n(a) the titular holder or transferee shall prove the total or partial destruction to the satisfaction of the licence issuing authority;\n(b) the replacement licence ... shall not be issued if the titular holder or transferee has failed to show that he has taken reasonable precautions to prevent the destruction of the licence ..., or where the evidence provided by the titular holder is unsatisfactory;\n(c) the security to be lodged for the replacement licence ... shall be 150 % of the security for the original licence, with a minimum of £3 per 100 kilograms or per hectolitre or head, taking account of the balance of the quantity remaining available at the moment of destruction, and of the positive tolerance, if applicable. The balance of security available for the original licence may be used when lodging the security for the replacement licence. Any excess of the security for the original licence compared to the security for the replacement licence, taking into account the remaining available quantity shall be released immediately.\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n6. Where a paper licence ... is lost or destroyed, and the lost or destroyed document has been used wholly or in part, for the sole purpose of releasing the still outstanding security concerning the release for free circulation or export which were already registered on the original licence, the following conditions shall apply:\n(a) the titular holder or transferee may request the licence issuing authority to issue a duplicate licence ... to be drawn up and endorsed in the same way as the original document. A duplicate licence ... may only be issued once;\n(b) the licence issuing authority may supply the titular holder or transferee with a duplicate licence ..., clearly marked ‘duplicate’ on each copy;\n(c) the duplicate licence ... shall be presented to the customs authority competent for the declaration for release for free circulation, or export, where that declaration was accepted under the lost licence .... That customs authority shall make entries on and endorse the duplicate concerning the release for free circulation or export carried out under the original licence ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(1) 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. 2 para. 11(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(2) 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. 2 para. 11(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(2) 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. 2 para. 11(4)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(2) 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. 2 para. 11(4)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(2) 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. 2 para. 11(4)(b)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(4) 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. 2 para. 11(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sum in Art. 15(4)(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. 2 para. 11(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 15(5) 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. 2 para. 11(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(6) 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. 2 para. 11(7); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15 heading 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. 2 para. 11(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1239/article/15",
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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."
}