
Article 1 

1. At the request of the operators concerned, the securities related to import rights and import licenses lodged pursuant to Articles 3(2) and 4(4) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2078, respectively, shall be released under the condition that the import rights or licenses have been used only partially or not at all by 31 December 2016.
2. The securities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be released proportionally to the import rights and licenses which have not been used by 31 December 2016.
Article 2 

1. At the request of the operators concerned, the securities related to imports rights granted in relation to the subperiod from 1 January to 31 March 2017, lodged pursuant to Article 3(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2078 shall be released under the condition that the import rights have been used only partially or not at all by 31 December 2017.
2. The securities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be released proportionally to the import rights which have not been used by 31 December 2017.
Article 3 
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.Done at Brussels, 21 March 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER