Regulation (EC) No 2305/2003 is hereby amended as follows:
Article 1 is replaced by the following:
1.A tariff quota is hereby opened for the import of 306 215 tonnes of barley falling within CN code 1003 00 (serial No 09.4126).
2.The tariff quota shall be opened on 1 January each year. Duties on imports within the tariff quota shall be levied at a rate of EUR 16 per tonne.
Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 shall apply to imports of the products referred to in this Regulation in excess of the quantity provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article.’
Article 3 is amended as follows:
Paragraph 1 is amended as follows:
The first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘1.Applications for import licences shall be lodged with the competent authorities of the Member States each week no later than Monday at 13.00 (Brussels time).’
The third subparagraph is deleted.
In the first subparagraph of paragraph 2, the first sentence is replaced by the following:
‘No later than 18.00 Brussels time on the final day for the lodging of licence applications, the competent authorities shall forward to the Commission electronically a notification in accordance with the model given in the Annex and the total quantity for which import licence applications have been submitted.’
Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
‘3.If the combined total of the quantities granted since the start of the year and the quantity referred to in paragraph 2 exceeds the relevant quota for the year concerned, the Commission shall fix, no later than the third working day following the final day for the lodging of applications, an allocation coefficient to be applied to the quantities requested.’
In paragraph 4, the first sentence is replaced by the following:
‘Without prejudice to paragraph 3, licences shall be issued on the fourth working day following the final day for the lodging of applications.’