Regulation (EC) No 748/2008 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   In Article 8, paragraphs 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:

   2.

   At the latest on the 17th day of the month in which applications are submitted, the Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantity per country of origin covered by applications.

   3

   Import licences shall be issued as from the 25th and no later than at the end of the month in which the applications were submitted.

2. (2)

   Article 9 is amended as follows:

   1. (a)

      Paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:

      1.

      By way of derogation from the second subparagraph of Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Member States shall notify the Commission:

      a

      no later than 10 August, of the quantities of products, including nil returns, for which import licences were issued in the previous month, regarding the quantities referred to in Article 1(3)(b) of this Regulation;

      b

      no later than 31 August following the end of each import tariff quota period, of the quantities of products, including nil returns, for which import licences were issued in the previous import tariff quota period, regarding the quantities referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of this Regulation;

      c

      no later than 31 October following the end of each import tariff quota period, of the quantities of products, including nil returns, covered by unused or partly used import licences and corresponding to the difference between the quantities entered on the back of the import licences and the quantities for which they were issued.

      2

      Member States shall notify the Commission of the details of the quantities of products put into free circulation in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006.

   2. (b)

      In paragraph 3, the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:

      The notifications regarding the quantities referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of this Regulation shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/200914.

3. (3)

   Annexes IV, V and VI are deleted.