Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1059/2012Show full title

Article 1 U.K.

Regulation (EC) No 412/2008 is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

1. An import tariff quota of 63 703 tonnes bone-in equivalent of frozen beef falling within CN code 0202 20 30, 0202 30 10, 0202 30 50, 0202 30 90 or 0206 29 91 and intended for processing in the Union (hereinafter “the quota”) is hereby opened every year for the period from 1 July to 30 June of the following year (hereafter “import tariff quota period”) subject to the conditions laid down in this Regulation.

2. The import tariff quota period referred to in paragraph 1 shall be divided in the following four subperiods:

(a) from 1 July to 30 September;

(b) from 1 October to 31 December;

(c) from 1 January to 31 March;

(d) from 1 April to 30 June.’;

(2)

Article 6 is amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. Applications for import rights for production of either A-products or B-products shall be submitted in the first seven days of the month preceding each subperiod, referred to in Article 1(2), and in any case no later than 13.00, Brussels time, of the relevant seventh day.’;

(b)

paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4. No later than 13.00, Brussels time, on the 14th day of the month in which applications are submitted in accordance with paragraph 1, Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantities applied for under each of the two categories of products, expressed in kilograms bone-in equivalence, in respect of the subperiod concerned.’;

(3)

Article 7 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 7

1. Import rights shall be awarded from the 23rd day of the month in which applications are submitted in accordance with Article 6(1) and at the latest on the last day of that month. Import rights shall be valid from the first day of the subperiod for which the application has been submitted and until 30 June of the import tariff quota period concerned.

2. If application of the allocation coefficient referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 results in fewer import rights to be allocated than had been applied for, the security lodged in accordance with Article 6(3) of this Regulation shall be released proportionally without delay.

3. The Commission shall suspend the submission of applications for import rights until the end of the import tariff quota period for the order numbers for which the available quantities are exhausted.’.