Article 19
1. Where a single year is retained pursuant to Article 17(2), the variable Ī i referred to in Article 6(2) shall represent the importer’s actual imports of the product group concerned during such year. 2. Where the combination of both 2004 and 2007 is retained pursuant to Article 17(2), the variable Ī i referred to in Article 6(2) shall represent the average of the importer’s actual imports of the product group concerned in years 2004 and 2007, calculated as follows: [(Actual imports in 2004) + (Actual imports in 2007)]/2. 3. The Commission shall inform the Licence Offices of the ceilings resulting from the calculations made according to Article 6(2) not later than 65 calendar days after the entry into force of this Regulation. 4. In case the ceilings referred to in Article 6 have not been calculated by the time the Agreement and the Protocol are applied on a provisional basis, the tariff quotas per product group shall be allocated to all importers in accordance with the allocation procedure referred to in Article 3(b) until the Commission has notified the Licence Offices that the ceilings have been established and that the allocation procedure referred to in Article 3(b) has ended. For the purposes of this paragraph, each importer shall be granted a maximum of 2,5 % of the tariff quota for each product group.