Notwithstanding Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003, import licences for husked, milled and semi-milled rice and broken rice shall be valid from their actual day of issue within the meaning of Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 until the end of the third month following their issue, and not in any case after 31 December of the year of issue, in accordance with the second sentence of the first paragraph of Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006.
However, import licences for husked, milled and semi-milled rice and broken rice issued for the subperiods referred to in the first indent of Article 3(1) and in the first indent of Article 5 of this Regulation, shall be valid from their actual day of issue until the end of the fourth month following.