Notifications of quantities to the Commission
Article 16
1. Unless otherwise provided for in Title III, the requirements set out in paragraphs 2 to 5 shall apply. 2. Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantities, covered by import or export licence applications for each tariff quota: (a) before the 14th day of a month, where applications for a licence are submitted in the first seven calendar days of a month; (b) before 6 December, where applications for a licence are submitted from 23 to 30 November. 3. Member States shall notify the Commission of the quantities covered by import and export licences they have issued for each tariff quota: (a) before the last day of the month, where applications for licences for a tariff quota are submitted in the first seven calendar days of the month; (b) before 31 December, where applications for licences for a tariff quota are submitted from 23 to 30 November; (c) before the 10th day of the month following the issue in the case of import licences issued on the basis of documents issued by third countries. In the circumstances referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 11(3), the notification shall be submitted within 7 days from the day in which the Commission published the allocation coefficient. In the circumstances referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 11(4), the notification shall be submitted within 14 days from the day in which the Commission published the allocation coefficient. 4. Member States shall notify the Commission, of the unused quantities covered by the issued import and export licences at the request of the Commission. Unused quantities shall correspond to the difference between the quantities entered on the back of the import or export licences and the quantities for which those licences were issued. 5. The unused quantities covered by import or export licences shall be notified to the Commission within four months or 210 calendar days respectively, following the expiry of the period of validity of the licences concerned. 6. Where the tariff quota period is divided into sub-periods, the unused quantities shall be notified together with the notification referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2 for the last sub-period. 7. The quantities shall be expressed in kilograms of product weight and broken down by order number and origin, where applicable. 8. For the notifications to the Commission referred to in this Regulation and related to beef and veal tariff quotas with order numbers 09.4450, 09.4451, 09.4452, 09.4453, 09.4454, 09.4002, 09.4455, 09.4001, 09.4004, the quantities shall be expressed in kilograms product weight, per country of origin and per product category as indicated in Part B of Annex XV to this Regulation. 9. Article 3 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1239 shall apply to the periods and time limits set out in this Article.