
Article 1 
At the request of the interested parties, the securities lodged for the issuing of import and export licences and advance-fixing certificates, shall be released, under the following conditions:

((a)) the exporting country or the receiving country indicated on the licences or advance-fixing certificates is Croatia. Where the indication exporting country or receiving country is not obligatory on the licence or advance-fixing certificate, the operator shall prove to the satisfaction of the competent authority that the exporting country or the receiving country is Croatia;
((b)) the validity of the licences or advance-fixing certificates does not expire before 1 July 2013;
((c)) the licences or advance-fixing certificates will have been used only partially or not at all by 1 July 2013.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force subject to and on the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Croatia.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 11 June 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO