Submission of applications for import and export licences
Article 6
1. Applications for import and export licences shall be submitted within the first seven calendar days of the month preceding the beginning of the tariff quota period and within the first seven calendar days of each month during the tariff quota period, except for December where no applications shall be submitted. 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, applications for import and export licences that are valid from 1 January shall be submitted between 23 and 30 November of the preceding year. 3. Unless stated otherwise in this Regulation, operators applying for licences shall lodge one admissible application per month and per tariff quota only. In the month of November, operators may lodge two applications per tariff quota: one application for licences valid as of December and one application for licences valid as of January. For import tariff quotas managed with documents issued by the exporting countries and for export tariff quotas managed by third countries, Articles 71 and 72 shall apply, respectively. 4. If an applicant submits more applications for a tariff quota than the maximum number set out in paragraph 3, none of the applications submitted for the tariff quota shall be admissible and the lodged security shall be forfeited. 5. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, where a tariff quota covers different CN codes, origins or different duty rates, operators may apply for the different CN codes or countries of origin or different duty rates per month. Such applications shall be lodged at the same time. The licence issuing authorities shall regard them as a single application.