
Article 1 
As regards import and export licences and advance-fixing certificates, the securities lodged shall, at the request of the interested parties, be released, provided that:

— the country of destination, origin or provenance marked in these licences or certificates is the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia or Slovakia,
— their validity had not expired on 1 May 2004,
— they had been used only partially or not at all by that date.
The first subparagraph shall also apply to licences and certificates for which the country of destination, origin or provenance is marked as ‘CEEC’, providing the operator can prove to the satisfaction of the competent authorities that this was an operation to or from a Member State referred to in the first subparagraph.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 May 2004.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 7 July 2004.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission