Article 3aImport licence applications and import licences for the quota period 2015#
1.The release into free circulation of the quantities awarded under the import tariff quotas referred to in Article 1(1) shall be subject to the presentation of an import licence.
10.The Commission shall set, where appropriate, the quantity for which no applications for licenses were received and which are automatically added to the quantity set for the next quota subperiod.
2.A security of EUR 20 per 100 kilograms shall be lodged by the operator at the time of the submission of an import licence application.
3.Licence applications shall refer to only one order number. They may concern several products covered by different CN codes. In that case, all the CN codes and their descriptions shall be entered in boxes 15 and 16 of the licence application and the licence respectively. In the case of tariff quota 09.4275 set out in Annex I, the total quantity shall be converted into the shell egg equivalent.
4.Licence applications and licences shall contain:
(a)in box 8, the name ‘Ukraine’ as country of origin and the box ‘yes’ marked by a cross;
(b)in box 20, one of the entries listed in Annex II.
5.Each licence shall mention the quantity for each CN code.
6.Applications for import licences shall be submitted in the first seven days of the month which precedes each of the subperiods referred to in Article 2(2).
7.Licence applications shall be made for a minimum quantity of 1 tonne and a maximum of 10 % of the quantity available for the quota concerned in the quota subperiod concerned.
8.Member States shall notify the Commission, by the 14th day of the month in which applications are submitted, of the total quantities, including nil returns, of all applications, expressed in kilograms egg shell equivalent weight in the case of tariff quota 09.4275 set out in Annex I and in kilograms product weight in the case of tariff quota 09.4276, and broken down by order number.
9.Import licences shall be issued as from the 23rd day of the month in which applications are submitted and at the latest by the last day of that month.