Licence applications shall be lodged with the competent authority in the Member State concerned during the first five working days in the month corresponding to each subperiod. However, for 2007, the five-day period for lodging applications for the first subperiod of the month of January referred to in Articles 3, 5 and 9 shall begin only on 13 January 2007.
The quantity applied for in respect of each subperiod and quota serial number concerned shall not exceed 5 000 tonnes in husked-rice equivalent.