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TITLE IIU.K.Quotas

B.U.K.Imports of products under CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80, 0104 20 90 and 0204 pursuant to GATT/WTO non-country specific tariff quotas

Article 15U.K.

Member States shall issue import licences for the import of products under GATT non-country-specific tariff quotas for supplier countries other than those included in Title II.A.

[F1During each of the first three quarters of each year, such import licences shall be issued within the limits of one quarter of the quantities, expressed in tonnes liveweight and referred to in Part 3 of the Annex, and expressed in tonnes of carcase equivalent and referred to in Part 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2808/2000 and in subsequent annual tariff quota regulations.]

During September of each year Member States shall issue import licences within the remaining balance of these quantities.

Article 16U.K.

[F11. The maximum overall quantity for which any one party may apply by lodging one or more licence applications shall be that laid down in Part 3 of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2808/2000 and in subsequent annual tariff quota regulations for the quarter in which the licence application(s) concerned is (are) lodged.]

2.Applications for licences may be lodged only during the first 10 days of each of the first three quarters of the year and during the first 10 days of September.

3.Applications for licences, broken down by product (referring to total quantities expressed in carcasse equivalent) and by country of origin, shall be forwarded by the Member States to the Commission No later than the sixteenth day of each of the first three quarters and by 16 September, at 5 pm.

4.The Commission shall decide, before the twenty-sixth day of each of the first three quarters and before 26 September by product and by country of origin, either:

(a)to authorize the issue of licences for all the quantities applied for, or

(b)to reduce all the quantities applied for by the same percentage.

Subject to the Commission decision Member States shall issue the licences only within the quantities for which they have forwarded application to the Commission.

5.Licences shall be issued on the thirthieth day of each of the first three quarters and on 30 September.

6.On issue each import licence shall bear the reference in Box 20 ‘issued in accordance with Title II.B of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95.’

Article 17U.K.

1.Import licences referred to in Article 15 of this Regulation shall be valid for three months from their date of issue within the meaning of Article 21 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3919/88.

2.Licence applications and licences shall bear in Box 8 the name of the country of origin. In the case of products falling within CN codes 0104 10 30, 0104 10 80 and 0104 20 90, licence applications and licences shall bear in Boxes 17 and 18 particulars of the net mass and where appropriate the number of animals to be imported.

A licence shall make it compulsory to import products from the country indicated.

3.Notwithstanding Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3719/88, the quantity put in free circulation may not exceed that indicated in Boxes 17 and 18 of the import licence; the number ‘0’ shall be entered to this effect in Box 19 of the said licence.

[F14. Import licences issued in respect of the quantities referred to in Part 3 of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2808/2000 and in subsequent annual tariff quota regulations shall bear in box 24 at least one of the following entries:

[F15. Import licences issued in respect of the quantities referred to in Part 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2808/2000 and in subsequent annual tariff quota regulations shall bear in box 24 at least one of the following entries:

Article 18U.K.

1.The issue of the import licence shall be conditional on the provision of a security as a guarantee that importation will be effected during the period of validity of the licence. The security shall be wholly forfeit if the operation is not carried out, or partially forfeit if the operation is only partially carried out within that period.

2.The level of the security relating to the import licences shall be: