Licence applications as referred to in Article 4 may be lodged solely during the first five days of each month of each import tariff quota period.

Notwithstanding Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 382/2008, applications may cover, for the same quota order number, one or several of the products covered by the CN codes or groups of CN codes listed in Annex I to that Regulation. In case applications cover several CN codes, the respective quantity applied for per CN code or group of CN codes shall be specified. In all cases, all the CN codes shall be indicated in section 16 and their description in section 15 of licence applications and licences.

At the latest on the 10 th day of the month in which applications are submitted, Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantity per country of origin covered by applications.

Import licences shall be issued as from the 17th and no later than the 21st of the month in which the applications were submitted. Each licence issued shall specify per CN code or group of CN codes the quantity concerned.