Article 12–Article 15 · 4 articles
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1. Where a quota authorisation remains unused after six months of its issuing, the importer shall either return it to the Licence Office, or shall notify the Licence Office of its intention to use it within the remainder of the quota period. Where a quota authorisation has been issued before the beginning of the quota period in accordance with Article 4 of the Protocol, the six-month time limit shall be counted as from 1 January of the year corresponding to the quota period.
2. The Licence Offices shall immediately notify the Commission of any quota authorisation returned by importers in accordance with paragraph 1. The balance of traditional importers’ ceilings available for the product group concerned shall be modified for the corresponding amount.
1. Where the actual imports by a traditional importer of covered products during quota period n–1 are lesser than 85 % of the quantities covered by all quota authorisations granted to such importer during the same quota period, the importer’s import ceilings for both product groups during quota period n+1 shall be reduced by an amount proportional to the size of missing actual imports.
2. The reduction referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calculated as follows:
r i = (0,85 * ΣΑ i – I i )/ΣΑ i
where:
‘r i
’ represents the reduction applicable to import ceilings of importer i, for both product groups, during the quota period n+1;
‘ΣΑ i
’ represents the sum of quota authorisations granted to the traditional importer i during the quota period n–1;
‘I i
’ represents the actual imports of covered products of importer i during the quota period n–1.
1. Where a quota authorisation that has not been returned after six months of its issuing pursuant to Article 12 remains unused at the end of quota period n–1, the importer’s import ceilings for both product groups during quota period n+1 shall be reduced by twice the amount proportional to the size of the unused quota authorisation.
2. The reduction referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calculated as follows:
R i = 2 * (ΣU i /ΣΑ i )
where:
‘R i
’ represents the reduction applicable to the import ceiling of importer i, for both product groups, during quota period n+1;
‘ΣU i
’ represents the sum of unused quota authorisations granted to importer i during the quota period n–1;
‘ΣΑ i
’ represents the sum of quota authorisations granted to importer i, for both product groups, during the quota period n–1.
Should the conditions for reduction of import ceilings provided for in Articles 13 and 14 be both met simultaneously, only the higher reduction (R i or r i ) shall be applied.
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