
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1187/2009 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Article 27(2), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'Licence applications can be lodged for all the products falling under CN codes 0402 10, 0402 21 and 0402 29.';
((2)) in Article 28(3), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'To be admissible, only one export licence application may be submitted per product code in the Combined Nomenclature and all applications must be lodged at the same time with the competent authority of a single Member State.';
((3)) Article 31 is amended as follows:

((a)) in paragraph 1, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'Not later than the fifth working day following the expiry of the period for lodging licence applications, Member States shall notify the Commission, for each of the two parts of the quota and for each product code of the Combined Nomenclature, of the quantities covered by licence applications or, where applicable, that no applications have been lodged.';
((b)) in paragraph 2, the third and the fourth subparagraphs are replaced by the following:
'If the application of the allocation coefficient results in a quantity per applicant of less than 20 tonnes, applicants may withdraw their applications. In such cases, they shall notify the competent authority within 3 working days of publication of the Commission’s decision. The security shall be released immediately. The competent authority shall notify the Commission, within 8 working days of publication of the decision, of the quantities broken down by product codes of the Combined Nomenclature, for which applications have been withdrawn and for which the security has been released.Where applications for licences are submitted for quantities of product not exceeding the quotas referred to in Article 28(1), the Commission shall allocate the remaining quantities in proportion to the quantities applied for, by fixing an allocation coefficient. The amount resulting from the application of the coefficient shall be rounded down to the nearest kg. The operators shall inform the competent authority of the supplementary quantity they accept, within a week from the publication of the allocation coefficient. The security lodged shall be increased accordingly.';
((4)) Article 32 is amended as follows:

((a)) in paragraph 1, the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'Member States shall notify the Commission by the end of February at the latest for both parts of the quota referred to in Article 28(1) of the quantities for which licences were issued, broken down by product code of the Combined Nomenclature.';
((b)) in paragraph 2, the following subparagraph is added:
'For the purposes of Article 6(2), the export licence shall also be valid for any of the products falling under the codes referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 27(2).';
((c)) paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:
'
5. By 31 August each year at the latest, Member States shall notify the Commission for both parts of the quota referred to in Article 28(1), and in respect to the previous 12-month period as referred to in Article 28(1), broken down by product code of the Combined Nomenclature:
— the quantity for which licences were not issued or cancelled,
— the quantity exported.';
((5)) in Article 33, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
'
1. Chapter II shall apply, with the exception of Articles 7 and 10.'.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from the quota year 2012/13.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 March 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO