CHAPTER 2

ALLOCATION PRINCIPLES
Article 6
1
During the first part of the quota period, each traditional importer shall only be entitled to request quota authorisations for a specific share of the quota for traditional importers for each product group (hereinafter referred to as ‘ceiling’), calculated in accordance with paragraph 2. All the quota authorisations granted to a traditional importer during the first part of the quota period shall be counted against such importer’s ceilings.
2
The ceiling for each product group of a traditional importer applicable in the following quota period (
‘
quota period n+1
’
) shall be calculated in accordance with the average of such importer's actual imports of the product group concerned during the two quota periods preceding the year of calculation of such ceiling, on the basis of the following formula:
- C
i
= T * (Ī
i
/ΣĪ
i
)
where:
- ‘
Ci
’
represents the ceiling for the product group concerned (spruce or pine) for importer i during quota period n+1;
- ‘
T
’
represents the quota for traditional importers available for the product group concerned during the year of calculation of the ceiling (
‘
quota period n
’ );
- ‘
Īi
’
represents the average of the actual imports by the traditional importer i of the product group concerned, in the two quota periods preceding the calculation (
‘
quota period n-2
’
and
‘
quota period n-1
’
, respectively), as follows:
[(actual imports of importer i in quota period n-2) + (actual imports of importer i in quota period n-1)]/2
- ‘
ΣĪ
i
’
represents the sum of all traditional importers' average imports Ī
i
for the product group concerned.
Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/623 of 21 April 2016 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 498/2012 on the allocation of tariff-rate quotas applying to exports of wood from the Russian Federation to the European Union.