
Article 1 
This Regulation shall apply to consignments of beef, veal and pigmeat products falling within CN codes 0201, 0202 and 0203 bound for the territory of the Russian Federation (‘Russia’) for which the export declarations are accompanied by an export refund application.
This Regulation shall not apply to consignments as referred to in the first paragraph of a quantity less than 3 000 kilograms.
Article 2 
Exporters wishing to benefit from the provisions of Article 4(2) shall communicate to the central body designated by each Member State of export, for each export declaration, within 10 working days of the date of unloading of the products in Russia, the following information:

((a)) the export declaration number, the customs office of export and the date on which the export customs formalities were completed;
((b)) a description of the goods, indicating the eight-figure product code of the combined nomenclature;
((c)) the net quantity in kilograms;
((d)) the TIR carnet number or the reference number of the Russian DKD internal transit document, or the number of the TD1/IM40 declaration of release for home use in Russia;
((e)) the container number, if applicable;
((f)) the identification number and/or the name of the means of transport at the time of entry of the consignment in Russia;
((g)) the licence number of the warehouse under customs supervision to which the product was delivered in Russia;
((h)) the date of delivery of the product to the warehouse under customs supervision in Russia.
Article 3 

1. The central body in the Member State concerned referred to in Article 2 shall forward the information it receives to OLAF by electronic mail within two working days of the date of receipt.
2. The information referred to in Article 2, and an identification number for each export operation, shall be sent by OLAF to the Russian customs authorities upon receipt.
3. OLAF shall inform the central body in the Member State concerned, as appropriate, of the Russian customs authorities reply, within two working days of receipt of that reply; or of the failure by those authorities to reply, within two working days of the end of the three-week period laid down for a reply by the Russian authorities under the administrative arrangement concluded with them.
Article 4 

1. The information referred to in Articles 1 and 2 shall not constitute additional requirements to those laid down for the grant of export refunds in the sectors concerned.
2. Where it is positive, the reply of the Russian authorities, as referred to in Article 3(3), shall be regarded as proof that the customs import formalities have been completed in accordance with Article 16(1) of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999.
Article 5 
Regulation (EC) No 2584/2000 is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II.
Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following 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.Done at Brussels, 28 November 2008.
For the Commission
Jacques BARROT
Vice-President
ANNEX I
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2584/2000 (OJ L 298, 25.11.2000, p. 16)
Regulation (EC) No 44/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 58)
ANNEX II
Regulation (EC) No 2584/2000 This Regulation
Articles 1-4 Articles 1-4
— Article 5
Article 5(1) Article 6
Article 5(2) —
— Annex I
— Annex II