[F1Article 8 U.K.

1. Export licences for products for which a refund or a tax has been fixed shall be issued on the third working day following that on which the application was lodged provided that no specific action as indicated in Article 9 of this Regulation, in Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/1995 or in Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1518/1995 (1) has been in the meantime taken by the Commission and provided that the quantity for which licences have been applied for have been notified in accordance with Article 16(1)(a) of this Regulation.

The first subparagraph shall not apply to licences issued in connection with invitations to tender or to the licences referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 that are issued for the purpose of a food aid operation within the meaning of Article 10(4) of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded as part of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (2) . Those export licences shall be issued on the first working day following the day of acceptation of the tender.

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[F33. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, export licences for products for which a refund has been fixed shall be issued, at the operator’s request, on the day on which the application is submitted, provided that the application specifies that the licence is issued without a refund and that, where an export tax is applicable upon acceptance of the export declaration, that tax applies to the products concerned. In such cases, box 20 of the application and the export licence issued must contain one of the entries shown in Annex Ia.] ]

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