Article 37
1. For the purposes of Article 47 of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, paragraphs 2 to 11 of this Article shall apply. 2. From 1 October of each budget period, applications for certificates in connection with an invitation to tender issued in an importing third country, fixing the export refund in advance on the day the application is submitted, may be made in accordance with this Article outside the periods laid down in Articles 29 and 34, where the sum of the amounts corresponding to a single invitation to tender for which one or more applications for refund certificates have been made by one or more exporters and for which no certificate has yet been issued does not exceed EUR 2 million. However, that limit may be increased to EUR 4 million where none of the reduction coefficients published since the beginning of the budget period and referred to in Article 33(1) or in Article 34(3) exceeds 50 %. 3. The amount in respect of which the certificate or certificates are applied for may not exceed the quantity specified in the invitation to tender multiplied by the corresponding refund rate(s), fixed in advance on the day the application is submitted. No account shall be taken of tolerances or options provided for in the invitation to tender. 4. In addition to the particulars referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 47(3), of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, Member States shall immediately inform the Commission of the amounts in respect of which each certificate is applied for, and the date and time of submission of each application. 5. Where the amounts notified under paragraph 4, when added to the amounts in respect of which one or more certificates have already been applied for as part of the same invitation to tender, exceed the applicable limit referred to in paragraph 2, the Commission shall inform the Member States within two working days of the receipt of the additional information referred to in paragraph 4 that the refund certificate shall not be issued to the operator. 6. The Commission may suspend the application of paragraph 2 where the cumulative sum of the amounts of refund certificates which may be issued in accordance with Article 47 of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 exceeds EUR 4 million in a single budget period. Decisions to suspend shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union . 7. By way of derogation from Article 35(1) and (2) of this Regulation refund certificates issued in accordance with Article 47 of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 shall be valid from the day on which they are issued within the meaning of Article 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008. Refund certificates shall be valid until the end of the eighth month following the month of issue, or until 30 September, whichever is earlier. Rates fixed in advance are valid until the last day of the certificate’s validity. 8. Where, in accordance with point (a) of Article 47(9) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, the competent authority is satisfied that the agency that issued the invitation to tender has cancelled the contract for reasons which are not attributable to the successful tenderer and are not considered to constitute force majeure, it shall release the security in cases where the rate of the refund fixed in advance in respect of the basic product corresponding to the largest refund compared with the other basic products used is higher than or equal to the rate of the refund valid on the last day of the certificate’s validity. 9. Where, in accordance with point (b) of Article 47(9) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, the competent authority is satisfied that the agency that issued the invitation to tender has obliged the successful tenderer to accept changes to the contract for reasons that are not attributable to him and are not considered to constitute force majeure, it may extend the validity of the certificate and the period during which the rate of the refund fixed in advance are to apply until 30 September. 10. Where, in accordance with point (c) of Article 47(9) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, the successful tenderer furnishes proof that the invitation to tender or the contract concluded following the award provided for a downward tolerance or option of more than 5 % and that the agency that issued the invitation to tender is invoking the relevant clause, the obligation to export shall be deemed to have been fulfilled where the quantity exported is not more than 10 % less than the quantity corresponding to the amount for which the certificate was issued. The first subparagraph shall apply on condition that the rate of the refund fixed in advance in respect of the basic product corresponding to the largest refund compared with the other basic products used is higher than or equal to the rate of the refund valid on the last day of validity of the certificate. In such cases the rate of 95 % referred to in Article 40(3) and (5) of this Regulation shall be replaced by 90 %. 11. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 to 10 of this Article the time-limit of 21 days specified in Article 47(5) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 shall be 44 days.