Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/254 of 6 February 2023 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 as regards certain technical rules on the management of tariff rate quotas

‘4 If an applicant submits more applications for a tariff quota than the maximum number set out in paragraph 3, none of the applications submitted for the tariff quota shall be admissible.’

Where the issue of a licence is subject to the lodging of a security pursuant to Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/760, the applicant shall lodge the security with the licence issuing authority before the end of the application period in the amount set out for each tariff quota in Annexes II to XIII to this Regulation. However, the licence issuing authority may oblige operators to lodge the security pursuant to Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/760 on the day of application for licences, in accordance with Article 4(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 1 shall apply to the licence application periods starting after the entry into force of this Regulation. However: (a) Article 1(2), points (3)(b)(i) and (ii), and (3)(c)(i) and (ii), and point (6) of the Annex shall apply as from the first day of 90-day period after the publication of this Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union or, where applicable, to the first application period opening after that period; (b) point (1)(b) and point (5)(b) of the Annex shall apply to the tariff rate quota period starting in July 2023.