Article 4
Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 is amended as follows: 1. In Article 9(2), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘In such cases, one of the entries listed in Annex Ia shall be made by the issuing agency in section 6 of the licence or certificate.’ 2. The first paragraph of Article 16 is replaced by the following: ‘Applications for licences and licences with advance fixing of the refund which are drawn up in connection with a food-aid operation within the meaning of Article 10(4) of the Agreement on Agriculture, concluded as part of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, shall contain in section 20 at least one of the entries listed in Annex Ib.’ 2a. In Article 18(4) ‘BG’ for Bulgaria and ‘RO’ for Romania is added. 3. Article 33 is amended as follows: (a) In paragraph 2, the third subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘Where the sole purpose of the T5 control copy is the release of the security, the T5 control copy shall contain in section 106 one of the entries listed in Annex Ic.’ (b) In paragraph 3, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘Where, after acceptance of the export declaration as referred to in the first indent of Article 24(1)(b), a product is placed under one of the simplified arrangements provided for in Part II, Title II, Chapter 7, section 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 or in Title X, Chapter I of Appendix I to the Convention of 20 May 1987 on a common transit procedure for carriage to a station-of-destination or delivery to a consignee outside the Community’s customs territory, the T5 control copy required according to 2(b) shall be sent through official channels to the issuing body. One of the entries listed in Annex Id shall be entered in section “J” of the T5 control copy under the heading “Remarks”.’ 4. In Article 36(4), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘One of the entries listed in Annex Ie, underlined in red, shall be entered in section 22 of replacement licences, certificates or extracts.’ 5. Article 42(1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. Where, following a case of force majeure , an operator has applied for the period of validity of a licence involving advance fixing of the export levy or export refund to be extended and the competent body has not yet taken a decision on such application, the operator may apply to the body for a second licence. The second licence shall be issued on the terms applying at the time of application except that: (a) it shall be issued for no more than the unused quantity on the first licence for which extension has been applied for; (b) section 20 thereof shall contain one of the entries listed in Annex If.’ 6. In Article 43(1), the point (a) is replaced by the following: ‘(a) if export was effected without an export licence or advance-fixing certificate, then where the information sheet INF 3 as provided for in Article 850 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 is used it must bear in section A one of the entries listed in Annex Ig;’. 7. In Article 45(3), the point (a) is replaced by the following: ‘(a) the declaration of export of the equivalent products or a copy or photocopy thereof certified as such by the competent authorities and bearing one of the entries listed in Annex Ih; the entry must be authenticated by the stamp of the customs office concerned, applied directly to the document in question;’. 8. In Article 50(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘Save where the regulations in particular sectors require special wording, section 24 of licences and certificates shall indicate one of the entries listed in Annex Ii.’ 9. The text in Annex IV to this Regulation is inserted as Annex Ia, Annex Ib, Annex Ic, Annex Id, Annex Ie, Annex If, Annex Ig, Annex Ih and Annex Ii.