New Zealand butter tariff quotas
Article 50
1. This Article applies to tariff quotas under order numbers 09.4195 and 09.4182. 2. Customs authorities shall indicate the serial number of the IMA 1 certificate in Section 31 of the import licence. 3. ‘At least six weeks old’ in the description of the tariff quotas for New Zealand butter means at least six weeks old on the date on which a declaration of release for free circulation in the Union is presented to the customs authorities. 4. At all stages in the marketing of butter originating in New Zealand imported into the Union, the New Zealand origin shall be marked on its packaging and on the corresponding invoice. Where butter originating in New Zealand is blended with butter originating in the Union and where the blended butter is intended for direct consumption and marketed in packages of 500 grams or less, the New Zealand origin of the blended butter shall be stated only on the corresponding invoice. 5. IMA 1 certificates shall be drawn up in accordance with the model set out in Annex XIV. 6. By way of derogation from Article 5(1), for the New Zealand butter tariff quota under order number 09.4195, applications for import licences shall not cover, per applicant, more than 125 % of the quantities that the applicant has released for free circulation under the tariff quota order numbers 09.4195 and 09.4182, in the course of the 24-month period prior to the month of November preceding the tariff quota period. 7. By way of derogation from Article 5(1), for the New Zealand butter tariff quota under order number 09.4182, applications for import licences shall not cover, per applicant, less than 20 tonnes and more than 10 % of the quantity available for the tariff quota sub-period. 8. The quantities notified by the competent authorities to the Commission for tariff quotas under order numbers 09.4195 and 09.4182 shall be broken down by CN code.