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Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007
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1.Without prejudice to cases where import or export licences are required in accordance with this Regulation, the import for release into free circulation into, or the export of one or more products of the following sectors from, the Union may be made subject to the presentation of a licence:
(a)cereals;
(b)rice;
(c)sugar;
(d)seeds;
(e)olive oil and table olives, with regard to products falling within CN codes 1509, 1510 00, 0709 92 90, 0711 20 90, 2306 90 19, 1522 00 31 and 1522 00 39;
(f)flax and hemp, as far as hemp is concerned;
(g)fruit and vegetables;
(h)processed fruit and vegetables;
(i)bananas;
(j)wine;
(k)live plants;
(l)beef and veal;
(m)milk and milk products;
(n)pigmeat;
(o)sheepmeat and goatmeat;
(p)eggs;
(q)poultrymeat;
(r)ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin.
2.Licences shall be issued by Member States to any applicant, irrespective of their place of establishment in the Union, unless an act adopted in accordance with Article 43(2) TFEU provides otherwise, and without prejudice to the application of Articles 177, 178 and 179 of this Regulation.
3.Licences shall be valid throughout the Union.
1.In order to take into account the international obligations of the Union and the applicable Union social, environmental and animal welfare standards, the need to monitor the evolution of trade and market developments, of imports and exports of products, the need for sound market management and the need to reduce the administrative burden, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 determining:
(a)the list of the products of the sectors referred to in Article 176(1) subject to the presentation of an import or export licence;
(b)the cases and situations where the presentation of an import or export licence is not required, taking account of the customs status of the products concerned, the trade arrangements to be respected, the purposes of operations, the legal status of the applicant and the quantities involved.
2.In order to provide further elements of the licence system, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 laying down rules on:
(a)the rights and obligations deriving from the licence, its legal effects, and the cases where a tolerance applies as regards compliance with the obligation to import or export the quantity mentioned in the licence or where the origin is to be indicated in the licence;
(b)the issue of an import licence or the release into free circulation being subject to the presentation of a document issued by a third country or an entity certifying inter alia the origin, the authenticity and the quality characteristics of the products;
(c)the transfer of the licence or restrictions on its transferability;
(d)additional conditions for import licences for hemp in accordance with Article 189 and the principle of administrative assistance between Member States to prevent or deal with cases of fraud and irregularities;
(e)the cases and situations where the lodging of a security guaranteeing that the products are imported or exported within the period of validity of the licence is or is not required.
The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the measures necessary for the application of this Chapter, including rules on:
the format and content of the licence;
the submission of applications and the issuing of licences and their use;
the period of validity of the licence,
the procedures for, and the amount of, a security to be lodged;
the proof that the requirements for the use of licences have been fulfilled;
the level of the tolerance as regards the respect of the obligation to import or export the quantity mentioned in the licence;
the issue of replacement licences and duplicate licences;
the treatment of licences by Member States and the exchange of information needed for the management of the system, including the procedures relating to the specific administrative assistance between Member States.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 229(2).
The Commission may adopt implementing acts:
limiting the quantities for which licences may be issued;
rejecting the quantities applied for;
suspending the submission of applications in order to manage the market where large quantities are applied for.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted without applying the procedure referred to in Article 229(2) or (3).
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