http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/413/article/3aCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 413/2014 of 23 April 2014 opening and providing for the administration of Union import tariff quotas for poultrymeat originating in UkraineCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 413/2014Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 413/2014 of 23 April 2014 opening and providing for the administration of Union import tariff quotas for poultrymeat originating in Ukraine2020-12-10King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014R0413-20141102texttext/xmlen2014-11-02 <Addition ChangeId="O001001M004" CommentaryRef="c000002">Import rights applications for the quota period 2015</Addition> Article 3a 1 Applications for import rights shall be submitted in the first seven days of the month preceding each of the subperiods referred to in Article 2(2). 2 A security of EUR 35 per 100 kilograms shall be lodged at the time of submission of an import rights application. 3 Applicants for import rights shall, when presenting their first application for a given quota year, submit the proof that a quantity of poultry products falling under CN codes 0207 , 0210 99 39 , 1602 31 , 1602 32 or  1602 39 21 has been imported by them or on their behalf under the relevant customs provisions, during the 12-month period immediately prior to their first application (hereinafter ‘ the reference quantity ’ ). A company formed by the merger of companies, each having an imported reference quantity, may combine those reference quantities as a basis for its application. 4 The total quantity covered by an application for import rights submitted in the import tariff quota subperiod shall not exceed 25 % of the applicant's reference quantity. Applications not complying with this rule shall be rejected by the competent authorities. 5 Member States shall notify the Commission, by the 14th day of the month in which applications are submitted, of the total quantities, including nil returns, of all applications, expressed in kilograms of product weight and broken down by order number. 6 Import rights shall be awarded as from the 23rd day of the month in which applications are submitted and at the latest by the last day of that month. 7 If application of the allocation coefficient referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 results in fewer import rights to be allocated than had been applied for, the security lodged in accordance with paragraph 2 shall be released proportionally without delay. 8 Import rights shall be valid from the first day of the subperiod for which the application has been submitted until 31 December 2015 . Import rights shall not be transferable. Inserted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1167/2014 of 31 October 2014 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 413/2014 opening and providing for the administration of Union import tariff quotas for poultrymeat originating in Ukraine.