Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 2375/2002 is hereby amended as follows: 1. In Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. The overall import tariff quota shall be divided into three subquotas: (a) subquota I (order number 09.4123): 572 000 tonnes for the United States; (b) subquota II (order number 09.4124): 38 000 tonnes for Canada; (c) subquota III (order number 09.4125): 2 371 600 tonnes for other third countries.’ 2. The following Article 4a is added: ‘Article 4a Traders may submit only one import licence application per order number and per weekly period concerned under Article 5(1). Where traders submit more than one application, all their applications shall be rejected and the securities lodged when the applications were submitted shall be taken over by the Member State concerned.’ 3. Article 5 is amended as follows: (a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. Applications for import licences shall be submitted to the competent authorities of the Member States no later than 13.00, Brussels time, every Monday. Applicants shall submit their licence applications to the competent authorities of the Member State in which they are registered for VAT purposes. They shall lodge a security, in accordance with Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, for the amount specified in Article 10 of this Regulation. Each licence application shall indicate a quantity which may not exceed the quantity available per subquota or tranche concerned. Import licence applications and import licences themselves shall mention a single country of origin.’ (b) In paragraph 2, the words ‘by fax’ are replaced by the words ‘electronically’. (c) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. If the combined total of the quantities granted since the start of the period and the quantities referred to in paragraph 2 exceeds the relevant subquota or tranche, the Commission shall fix, no later than the third working day after the applications are lodged, the allocation coefficients to be applied to the quantities requested.’ (d) Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: ‘4. After applying, where necessary, the application coefficients fixed in accordance with paragraph 3, the competent authorities of the Member States shall issue, on the fourth working day following the day on which the application is submitted, the import licences corresponding to the applications sent to the Commission in accordance with paragraph 2. No later than 18.00, Brussels time, on the day the import licences are issued, the competent authorities shall notify the Commission electronically, on the basis of the model annexed hereto, of the total quantity resulting from the sum of the quantities for which import licences have been issued on that same day.’ 4. The Annex is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.