Specific rules applicable to import tariff quotas managed with documents issued by the exporting countries
Article 72
1. Where an import tariff quota is managed in accordance with point (iii) of Article 187(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the document issued by an exporting country shall be: (a) a certificate of authenticity (CA) for the sector of beef and veal; (b) an Inward Monitoring Arrangement form (IMA 1) for the sector of milk and milk products. 2. By way of derogation from Article 6(1) and (2), operators may lodge more than one licence application per month and licence applications may be submitted at any day, taking account of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1239. 3. With the exception of tariff quotas referred to in Articles 49 and 50, operators shall present to the licence issuing authority of the Member State of import the original of the certificate of authenticity or of the IMA 1 certificate together with their application for import licence. The operator shall also provide a copy of the certificate of authenticity or of the IMA 1 certificate if so required by the licence issuing authority. The application shall be made within the period of validity of the certificate of authenticity or of the IMA 1 certificate and no later than the last day of the tariff quota period concerned. 4. The licence issuing authority shall verify that information on the certificate of authenticity corresponds to the information it received from the Commission. If that is the case and unless instructed otherwise by the Commission, the licence issuing authority shall issue import licences without delay, no later than six calendar days after receiving the application submitted with a certificate of authenticity or IMA 1 certificate. 5. One certificate of authenticity or IMA 1 certificate shall be used for issuing one import licence only. 6. The licence issuing authority shall note on the certificate of authenticity or IMA 1 certificate and on their copy the licence issue number and the quantity for which that document was used. The quantity shall be expressed in whole units, rounded up. The certificate of authenticity or IMA 1 certificate shall be kept by the licence issuing authority. The copy shall be returned to the applicant to be used for customs procedures where so indicated in Title III of this Regulation. 7. The Commission may request a third country to authorise representatives of the Commission to carry out, where required, on-the-spot checks in that third country. Those checks shall be performed jointly with the competent authorities of the third country concerned. 8. Once the exporting country has issued one or more certificates of authenticity or IMA 1 certificates, it shall immediately communicate the issue of these documents to the Commission. Exchange of documents and information between the Commission and an exporting country shall take place by means of an information system set up by the Commission in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185. If required by a third country, the exchange of documents may continue to take place by conventional means, in which case the import licence shall be made available to the titular holder only when the original of the exporting country document is presented. 9. The Commission shall make available to the licence issuing and customs authorities of the Member States the specimens of the stamp imprints used by the issuing authority in the exporting country for issuing the certificate of authenticity. Names and signatures of the persons authorised to sign the certificate of authenticity, communicated to the Commission by the authorities of exporting countries, shall also be made available to the licence issuing and customs authorities of the Member States. The access to the Specimen Management System (SMS) database containing this information shall be restricted to authorised persons and shall be made available to Member States by means of an information system set up in accordance with Articles 57 and 58 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.