Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 is amended as follows: 1. Article 5 is amended as follows: (a) In paragraph 1, the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:"Each licence application must be for a quantity that may not exceed the quantity available under the subquota for the import of the product concerned in the period concerned. Applicants may submit only one licence application in the Member State concerned." (b) Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. No later than 18.00 Brussels time on the day of lodging of licence applications, the competent authorities shall forward to the Commission by fax a notification in accordance with the model set out in the Annex and the total quantity resulting from the sum of all quantities indicated on the import licence applications. Notifications shall be made even where no applications have been lodged in a Member State. That information must be communicated separately from the information on other import licence applications for cereals. If Member States fail to send the notification of applications to the Commission within the prescribed time limits, the Commission shall consider that no applications were lodged in the Member State concerned." 2. The following Article 6 is inserted: "Article 6 Import licences shall be valid for 45 days from the day of issue. In accordance with Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, the period of validity of the licence shall be calculated from the actual date of issue." 3. The third paragraph of Article 12 is deleted.