Article 1Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001

Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 is amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    in Article 5, point (h) is replaced by the following:

    1. ‘(h)
      the quotas provided for in Annex V to the Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Norway, approved by Council Decision 2011/818/EU5, hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement with Norway”;’;
  2. (2)

    in Article 16, the following paragraph 5 is added:

    ‘5.

    By way of derogation from point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 11(1) in conjunction with the second subparagraph of that Article of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Member States shall notify the Commission of the quantities, including nil returns, covered by import licences they have issued, within 10 working days following the end of the period for issuing those licences referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.’;

  3. (3)

    in Article 19(1), point (g) is replaced by the following:

    1. ‘(g)

      Rules referred to in point 9 of the Agreement with Norway;’;

  4. (4)

    Part H of Annex I is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2Derogation from Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001 and (EC) No 1301/2006

1.

By way of derogation from Article 14(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 and Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, for the quota for the period from 1 March to 30 June 2012 relating to a quantity of 1 600 tonnes, as set out in Part H of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 as amended by the Annex to this Regulation, applications for import licences may be lodged from 1 to 10 March 2012.

Those applications shall relate to not less than 10 tonnes.

2.

Import licences issued in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be valid until 30 June 2012.

Article 3Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 March 2012.

However, this Regulation shall be without prejudice to the quantity of 2 000 tonnes already made available for the period from 1 January to 30 June 2012.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 February 2012.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso