Article 4 Validity of import licences

United Kingdom

Import licences shall be valid:

(a)

from the first calendar day of the month following the submission of the application in case of applications submitted during the tariff quota period;

(b)

from 1 January of the following year in case of applications submitted between the 23 and 30 November of the preceding year.

The tariff quota volumes are divided into sub-periods, and licences issued each month are valid four months, but shall expire not later than the end of the tariff quota period.

If the period of validity of an import licence for tariff quotas referred to in Article 1(1) is extended due to force majeure as provided for in Article 16 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1239^f1, the extension shall not exceed the tariff quota period.

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Footnotes

f1: 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 (OJ L 206, 30.7.2016, p. 44).