1.Applications for provisional export licences lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1847/2004 in respect of the product groups and quotas identified by 16-Tokyo, 16-, 17-, 18-, 20- and 21-Uruguay, 25-Tokyo and 25-Uruguay in column 3 of the Annex to this Regulation shall be accepted, subject to the application of the allocation coefficients laid down in column 5 of that Annex, when they are submitted by:
applicants who show an export to the United States of America of the products in question during at least one of the preceding three years and whose designated importers are subsidiaries, or
applicants whose designated importers are deemed to be subsidiaries pursuant to point (b) of the second subparagraph of Article 20(3) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999.
Applications referred to in the first subparagraph shall be accepted, subject to the application of the allocation coefficients laid down in column 6 of the Annex, when they are submitted by:
applicants other than those referred to in the first subparagraph who show an export to the United States of America of the products in question during each of the preceding three years, or
applicants in respect of whom an historical performance is not required pursuant to point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 20(3) of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999.
Applications referred to in the first subparagraph shall be rejected when they are submitted by applicants other than those referred to in the first and second subparagraphs.
2.If the allocated quantity resulting from the application of paragraph 1 is less than 2 tonnes, applicants may withdrawn their application. In such cases, they shall notify the competent authorities within five working days of the entry into force of this Regulation whereupon their security shall be immediately released.
The competent authority shall notify the Commission within eight working days of the entry into force of this Regulation, of the quantity for which applications have been withdrawn and for which the security has been released.
Applications for provisional export licences lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1847/2004 in respect of the product group and quotas identified by 22-Tokyo and 22-Uruguay in column 3 of the Annex to this Regulation shall be accepted for the quantities requested.
On further application of the trader within 10 working days of the entry into force of this Regulation and subject to the lodging of the security applicable, provisional export licences may be issued for further quantities subject to the application of the allocation coefficient laid down in column 7 of the Annex.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 December 2004.
For the Commission
Mariann Fischer Boel
Member of the Commission