Applications for licences shall be submitted no later than 13.00, Brussels time, on the 15th calendar day following the date on which this Regulation enters into force.

Licence applications may refer to only one order number. They may concern several products covered by different CN codes. In that case, all the CN codes and their descriptions shall be entered in boxes 15 and 16 of the licence application and the licence respectively. In the case of tariff quota 09.4275 set out in Annex I, the total quantity shall be converted into the shell egg equivalent.

Licence applications shall be made for a minimum quantity of 1 tonne and a maximum of 10 % of the quantity available for the quota concerned.

A security of EUR 20 per 100 kilograms shall be lodged at the time of the submission a licence application.

No later than the 7th working day following the end of the period for the submission of applications referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantity applied for in kilograms egg shell equivalent weight and broken down by order number.

The release into free circulation of the quantity awarded under the import tariff quota referred to in Article 1(1) shall be subject to the presentation of an import licence.

Import licences shall be issued as from the 7th and no later than the 12th working day following the end of the notification period referred to in paragraph 6.