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Article 4

Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 is amended as follows:

1.

Article 37 is replaced by the following:

Article 37

When replacement licences, certificates or extracts are issued, Member States shall immediately notify the Commission of:

(a)

the serial number of replacement licences, certificates or extracts issued and the serial number of replaced licences, certificates or extracts in accordance with Articles 35 and 36;

(b)

the nature and quantity of the goods concerned and the rate of any export refund or export levy fixed in advance.

The Commission shall inform the other Member States thereof.

2.

In Article 40, paragraph 6 is replaced by the following:

6.The Member States shall notify the Commission of the case of force majeure they have recognised, providing the following information: the nature of the product concerned with its CN code, the operation (import or export), the quantities involved and, according to the case, the cancellation of the licence or the extension of the period of validity of the licence with the indication of the term of validity.

The Commission shall inform the other Member States thereof.

3.

The following Article 48a is inserted at the end of Chapter IV:

Article 48a

The notifications to the Commission referred to in Article 14(5), Article 29(2), (3) and (4), Article 37, Article 40(6) and Article 47(3) of this Regulation shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009(1).