1. Where the method used is that laid down in Article 12, Member States shall issue licences immediately on verification of the Community balance available.
2. In other cases the following shall apply:
(a)
the Commission shall notify the competent authorities in the Member States, within a period to be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2), of the quantities for which they issue licences to the various applicants. It shall inform the other Member States thereof;
(b)
the competent authorities in the Member States shall issue import or export licences within 10 working days of notification of the Commission Decision or within the time limit set by the Commission;
(c)
the competent authorities shall inform the Commission that import or export licences have been issued.
The issue of licences may be made conditional upon the lodging of a security, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
1. Import or export licences shall authorise the import or export of products which are subject to quotas and shall be valid throughout the Community, regardless of the place of import or export mentioned in the applications by the operators.
Where a quota is limited to one or several regions of the Community, import or export licences shall be valid only in the Member State(s) of the region(s) in question.
2. The period of validity of import or export licences to be issued by the competent authorities of the Member States shall be four months. However, a different period of validity may be set in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
3. The holders of import or export licences may, on request, obtain extracts thereof from the competent authorities which issued the licences in the Member State concerned.
Such extracts shall have the same legal effects as the licences from which they are derived, up to the quantity for which the licences were issued.
4. Applications for import or export licences, licences and extracts shall be drawn up on forms conforming to a specimen the characteristics of which shall be established in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
Without prejudice to the specific provisions to be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2), import or export licences and their extracts may not be loaned or transferred, whether for a consideration or free of charge, by the person in whose name the document was issued.
1. Import or export licences or extracts shall, except in cases of force majeure , be returned to the competent authorities of the Member State of issue within 10 working days of their expiry date at the latest.
2. Where the issue of import or export licences is conditional upon the lodging of a security, the security shall, except in cases of force majeure , be forfeit where the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 is not complied with.
The competent authorities of the Member States shall notify the Commission, immediately upon being so informed and in any case no later than 20 days after the expiry date of the licences, of the quantities of quotas assigned and not used, with a view to their subsequent redistribution pursuant to Article 2(5).
The competent authorities of the Member States shall inform the Commission, by the end of each month, of the quantities of products subject to quotas which have been imported or exported during the preceding month.
Source: EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU), © European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
