Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 416/2014 of 23 April 2014 opening and providing for the administration of import tariff quotas for certain cereals originating in Ukraine

Article 1

Opening and providing for the administration of the tariff quotas

Article 2

Rules for issuing import licences

Import licence applications shall be submitted to the competent authorities of the Member States each week no later than Friday at 13:00 (Brussels time). Such applications may not be submitted after:

(a) 13:00 (Brussels time) on Friday 12 December 2014, for the year 2014;

(b) 13:00 (Brussels time) on Friday 11 December 2015, for the year 2015.

Article 3

Validity of import licences

Import licences shall be valid from the period running from the actual day of issue, in accordance with Article 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008, until the end of the second month following the month of that day. In any event, the period of validity expires at the latest on 31 December 2014 for the year 2014 and on 31 December 2015 for the year 2015.

Article 4

Communications

Article 5

Entry into force

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

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

ANNEX

Notwithstanding the rules on the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording of the product description shall be regarded as merely indicative, since the applicability of the preferential arrangements is determined, within the context of this Annex, by virtue of the CN codes. When the CN code is preceded by ‘ex’, the application of the preferential scheme is determined on the basis of the CN code and the description of the product.