X1Article 1
The annual import tariff quota provided for in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 shall be opened each year on January 1, for a quantity equivalent to 4 000 tonnes of husked rice. The serial number of the quota shall be 09.4517.
Regulations (EC) No 1291/2000, (EC) No 1342/2003 and (EC) No 1301/2006 shall apply, save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.
Article 2
1
The certificate of origin referred to in the second indent of Article 1(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 (hereinafter certificate of origin) shall be drawn up on a form of which a model is set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
2
The certificate of origin shall be valid for 90 days from the date of issue but not later than 31 December of the year of issue.
3
The competent authority for issuing certificates of origin shall be the ‘Export Promotion Bureau of Bangladesh’.
Article 3
1
The proof referred to in the first indent of Article 1(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 shall be constituted by the insertion by the competent authorities in Bangladesh of one of the one of the entries shown in Annex II to this Regulation under ‘Remarks’ in the certificate of origin.
2
Where the tax collected by the exporting country is less than the reduction referred to in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90, the reduction shall not exceed the amount collected.
Article 4
1
In addition to fulfilling the other conditions laid down by Community rules, in order to qualify for the arrangements referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90, the application for an import licence and the import licence itself must contain:
a
in sections 20 and 24, one of the entries shown in Annex III;
b
in section 8, ‘Bangladesh’ and ‘Yes’ marked with a cross.
2
Notwithstanding Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, applicants may submit more than one licence application per quota period. The eight-digit CN code shall be indicated on the application.
F13
Import licence applications shall be lodged with the competent authorities of the Member States no later than each Friday at 13:00 (Brussels time).
Each licence application shall indicate a quantity in kilograms (whole numbers).
F1Article 5
1
Where the quantities applied for in a given week exceed the quantity available under the quota, the Commission shall fix the allocation coefficient for the quantities applied for during that week, pursuant to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, no later than the fourth working day following the last day for the submission of applications for that week, as referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 4(3) of this Regulation, and shall suspend the submission of new licence applications until the end of the quota period.
Applications submitted in respect of the current week shall be considered inadmissible.
Member States shall allow operators to withdraw, within two working days following the date of publication of the Regulation fixing the allocation coefficient, applications for which the quantity for which the licence is to be issued is less than 20 tonnes, whereas the licence application was for a greater quantity.
2
The import licence shall be issued on the eighth working day following the final day for the submission of applications.
3
The import licence, issued for a quantity not exceeding that entered on the certificate of origin referred to in Article 2, shall oblige the importer to import from Bangladesh.
Article 6
Notwithstanding Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003, the security for the import licences shall be fixed at EUR 30 per tonne for paddy rice falling within CN code 1006 10, with the exception of CN code 1006 10 10.
F1Article 7
The Member States shall send the Commission, by electronic means:
- (a)
on the Monday following the week in which the licence application was submitted, no later than 18:00 (Brussels time), the information on the import licence applications as referred to in Article 11(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, with a breakdown by eight-digit CN code of the total quantities (in product weight) covered by those applications;
- (b)
no later than the second working day following the issue of the import licences, the information on the licences issued as referred to in Article 11(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, with a breakdown by eight-digit CN code of the total quantities (in product weight) for which import licences have been issued and the quantities for which licence applications have been withdrawn in accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 5(1) of this Regulation;
- (c)
no later than the last day of each month, the total quantities (in product weight) actually released for free circulation under this quota during the previous month but one, broken down by eight-digit CN code. If no quantities have been released for free circulation during one of these months, a ‘nil’ notification shall be sent. However, this notification shall no longer be required in the third month following the final day of validity of the licences.
Article 8
Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 is hereby repealed.
Article 9
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.