Member States shall communicate to the Commission before the fifth working day of each month, by telex or by fax, the quantities, by product and by origin, in respect of which during the preceding month:

• the import licences referred to in Article 8 have been issued,

• the import licences returned to the issuing agency pursuant to Article 13 (5) have been used.

However, as soon as the Commission has requested from a supplier country, pursuant to Article 12 (1) (d), more frequent data as to the issue of documents of origin, the Member States as well shall communicate to the Commission more frequently the same information.

Member States shall communicate to the Commission before 15 July, 15 September and 15 November each year, the cumulative situation in respect of import licences issued for the periods January to June, January to August and January to October respectively; they shall also communicate before 31 January each year the final cumulative total of import licences issued during the course of the previous year.