CHAPTER II IMPORTS OF PROCESSED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

SECTION II Preferential Trade

Subsection II tariff quotas and special treatment of imports by third countries

Article 16Implementing powers

1.The Commission shall adopt implementing acts, laying down:

(a)the annual tariff quotas, which shall, if necessary, be suitably phased in over the year, and the method of administration to be used;

(b)procedures for the application of the specific provisions laid down in the international agreement or legal act adopting the import or export regime, in particular those concerning:

(i)

guarantees covering the nature, provenance and origin of the product;

(ii)

the recognition of any document used to verify the guarantees referred to in point (i);

(iii)

the presentation of a document issued by the exporting country;

(iv)

the destination and use of the products;

(c)the period of validity of the import licences to be presented in accordance with Article 15(1)(c);

(d)the procedure for lodging a security in accordance with Article 15(1)(c), and its amount;

(e)the use of import licences to be presented in accordance with Article 15(1)(c) and where necessary, specific measures relating, in particular, to the conditions under which applications for importation shall be submitted and authorisation granted within the tariff quota;

(f)documentary requirements;

(g)necessary measures concerning the content, form, issuing and use of the document referred to in Article 15(2).

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 44(2).

2.The Commission shall adopt implementing acts, without applying the procedure referred to in Article 44(2) or (3):

(a)managing the process guaranteeing that the quantities available within the tariff quota are not exceeded, in particular by fixing an allocation coefficient to each application when the available quantities are reached, rejecting pending applications and, where necessary, suspending the submission of applications;

(b)reallocating unused quantities of the tariff quota.