Article 4U.K.
1.For the purposes of applying Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, applicants for import licences shall, when submitting the first application for a given tariff quota period, provide proof that they imported or exported at least 50 tonnes of products covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 in each of the two periods referred to in the said Article 5.
2.Licence applications may refer to only one of the serial numbers indicated in Annex I to this Regulation. They may concern several products covered by different CN codes. If they do, all the CN codes and their designations must be entered in boxes 16 and 15 of the licence application and the licence respectively.
Licence applications must be for a minimum of 10 tonnes and a maximum of 10 % of the quantity available for the quota concerned in the subperiod in question.
3.By way of derogation from Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, in the case of groups 3, 5 and 6, each applicant may lodge more than one application for import licences for products in one group where such products originate in more than one country. Separate applications for each country of origin must be submitted simultaneously to the competent authority of a Member State. They shall be regarded as a single application, for the purposes of the maximum referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article.
4.Except for Group Numbers 3, 5 and 6, licences shall carry an obligation to import from the country that is specified. For the groups concerned by this obligation, the country of origin shall be entered in box 8 of the application and of the licence itself, and the word ‘yes’ shall be marked with a cross.
5.Box 20 of the licence application and the licence shall contain one of the entries indicated in Annex II, Part A.
Box 24 of the licence shall contain one of the entries indicated in Annex II, Part B.
For group 3 products, box 24 of the licence shall contain one of the entries indicated in Annex II, Part C.
For group 5 products, box 24 of the licence shall contain one of the entries indicated in Annex II, Part D.