Commission Regulation (EC) No 969/2006Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 969/2006 of 29 June 2006 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for imports of maize from third countries

Article 1U.K.

[F11. A tariff quota is hereby opened for the import of 277 988 tonnes of maize falling under CN codes 1005 10 90 and 1005 90 00 (order number 09.4131).]

2.The tariff quota shall be opened on 1 January each year. The duty on imports within the tariff quota shall be zero.

[F23. Commission Regulations (EC) Nos 1291/2000, 1342/2003 and 1301/2006 (1) shall apply, save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation.]

[F3Article 2 U.K.

[F11. The quota shall be divided into two six-monthly subperiods of 138 994 tonnes, covering the following dates:

(a) subperiod No 1: from 1 January to 30 June;

(b) subperiod No 2: from 1 July to 31 December.]

2. Where the quantities for subperiod 1 are exhausted, the Commission may bring forward the opening of the following subperiod in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003.]

F4Article 3U.K.

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[F3Article 4 U.K.

1. Notwithstanding Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, applicants may not submit more than one licence application per week. Where applicants lodge more than one application, none of those applications shall be admissible and the securities lodged when the applications were submitted shall be forfeited to the Member State concerned.

Import licence applications shall be lodged with the competent authorities of the Member States each week no later than [F5Friday] at 13.00 (Brussels time).

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2. Each licence application shall indicate a quantity in kilograms (whole numbers).

The import licence application and the import licence shall mention a single country of origin.

[F53. No later than 18:00 (Brussels time) on the Monday following the week in which the licence application was lodged, the competent authorities shall send the Commission, by electronic means, a notification showing each application, with the origin of the product and the quantity applied for, including nil notifications.]

[F54. Licences shall be issued on the fourth working day following the deadline for the notification referred to in paragraph 3.

Member States shall communicate to the Commission, by electronic means, on the day of 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 the total quantities for which import licences have been issued.] ]

[F3Article 5 U.K.

In accordance with Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, the period of validity of the licence shall be calculated from the actual day of issue.]

F4Article 6U.K.

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F4Article 7U.K.

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[F3Article 8 U.K.

Section 8 of the import licence application and the import licence shall contain the name of the country of origin and Yes shall be marked with a cross. Licences shall be valid only for products originating in the country indicated in section 8.]

Article 9U.K.

By way of derogation from Article 12(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003, the security for the import licences provided for in this Regulation shall be EUR 30 per tonne.

Article 10U.K.

Importation under the tariff quota provided for in Article 1 shall be subject to the presentation of a certificate of origin issued by the competent authorities of the third country in which the maize originates, in accordance with Article 47 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93(2).[F4 The origin of products covered by this Regulation shall be determined in accordance with the rules in force in the Community.]

F4Article 11U.K.

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Article 12U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 July 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.