Article 4
1. Licence applications may be lodged only during the first 10 days of each period as specified in Article 2. 2. Licence applications shall only be admissible where the applicant declares in writing that he has not submitted, and undertakes not to submit, any other applications under the import arrangements referred to in Article 1, in respect of the current period, concerning the same product by code and country of origin in the Member State in which his application is lodged or in other Member States; where the same interested party submits more than one application relating to the same product, all applications from that person shall be inadmissible. 3. The Member States shall notify the Commission, on the third working day following the end of the application submission period, of applications lodged for each of the products listed in Annex I. Such notification shall comprise the list of applicants, the quantities applied for by CN code and the countries of origin. All notifications, including notifications of nil applications, shall be made by telex or fax on the working day stipulated, in accordance with the model set out in Annex II hereto where no application is made and with the models set out in Annexes II and III where applications have been made. 4. The Commission shall decide as soon as possible to what extent quantities may be awarded in respect of applications as referred to in Article 3. If quantities in respect of which licences have been applied for exceed the quantities available in respect of each CN code and country of origin, the Commission shall fix a single percentage reduction in the quantities applied for. If the quantity obtained by applying that percentage is deemed insufficient by the applicant, he may refrain from using the licence. In that case he shall notify the competent authority of this decision within three working days following publication of the decision referred to in the previous subparagraph. The competent authority shall inform the Commission forthwith of the details of this notification. Where the overall quantity for which applications have been submitted is less than the quantity available in respect of each CN code and country, the Commission shall calculate the quantity remaining, which shall be added to the quantity available in respect of the following period. 5. The licences shall be issued as soon as possible after the Commission has taken its decision.