Article 5
1. Applications for import licences shall be lodged with the competent authorities of the Member States no later than 13.00 (Brussels time) every Monday. 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. 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 annexed hereto, and the total quantity resulting from the sum of all quantities indicated on the import licence applications. If the day for lodging the licence applications is a national holiday, the Member State concerned shall send the said notification no later than 18.00 Brussels time on the working day preceding the national holiday. That information must be communicated separately from the information on other import licence applications for cereals. 3. If the total of the quantities since the start of the period and the quantity referred to in paragraph 2 exceeds the relevant subquota for the period concerned, the Commission shall set, no later than the third working day after the applications are lodged, single reduction coefficients to be applied to the quantities requested. 4. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, licences shall be issued on the fourth working day following the day on which the application was lodged. No later than 18.00 Brussels time on the day the licences are issued, the competent authorities shall fax the Commission, at the number mentioned in the Annex hereto, the total quantity resulting from the sum of the quantities for which import licences have been issued that same day.