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Commission Regulation (EC) No 616/2007Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 616/2007 of 4 June 2007 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas in the sector of poultrymeat originating in Brazil, Thailand and other third countries

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Article 4

1.For the purposes of applying Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, import licence applicants shall, when presenting their first application as regards a given quota period, furnish proof that they imported or exported, during each of the two periods referred to in that Article, at least 50 tonnes of products covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75.

2.By way of derogation from Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 and paragraph 1 of this Article, import licence applicants may, when presenting their first application as regards a given quota period, also furnish proof that they processed, during each of the two periods referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, at least 1 000 tonnes of poultrymeat of CN codes 0207 or 0210 to produce preparations of poultrymeat of CN code 1602 covered by Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75.

For the purposes of this paragraph, a ‘processor’ shall be any person entered on the national VAT register of the Member State in which he is established, who provides proof of processing activity, in the form of any commercial document, to the satisfaction of the Member State concerned.

3.Licence applications shall mention only one of the serial numbers indicated in Annex I.

4.By way of derogation from Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, in the case of groups 3, 6 and 8, each applicant may lodge more than one application for import licences for products in one group where such products originate in more than one country. Separate applications for each country of origin must be submitted simultaneously to the competent authority of a Member State. They shall be regarded as a single application, for the purposes of the maximum referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article.

5.Licence applications must be for a minimum of 100 tonnes and a maximum of 5 % of the quantity available for the quota concerned in the period or subperiod in question. However, for Group Nos 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, the maximum quantity for licence applications shall be 10 % of the quantity available for the quota concerned in the period or subperiod in question.

For Group No 3, the minimum quantity for licence applications shall be reduced to 10 tonnes.

6.Except for Group Nos 3, 6 and 8, licences carry an obligation to import from the country that is specified. For the groups concerned by this obligation, the country of origin shall be entered in box 8 of the application and of the licence itself, and the word ‘yes’ shall be marked with a cross.

7.Box 20 of the licence application and the licence shall contain one of the entries given in Annex II, Part A.

Box 24 of the licences shall contain one of the entries listed in Annex II, Part B.

For group 3 and 6 products, box 24 of the licence shall contain one of the entries given in Annex II, Part C.

For group 8 products, box 24 of the licence shall contain one of the entries given in Annex II, Part D.

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