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The following Articles 7a to 7e are inserted: ‘Article 7a Export licences for out-of-quota exports By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 5, exports of out-of-quota isoglucose within the quantitative limit referred to in Article 12(d) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 shall be subject to the presentation of an export licence. Article 7b Application for out-of-quota export licences 1. Applications for export licences in respect of the quantitative limit to be fixed pursuant to Article 12(d) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 may be submitted only by producers of beet and cane sugar or producers of isoglucose which are approved in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 and to which a sugar or isoglucose quota has been allocated in respect of the marketing year concerned in accordance with Article 7 of that Regulation, account being taken of, as the case may be, of Articles 8, 9 and 11 of that Regulation. 2. Applications for export licences shall be submitted to the competent authorities of the Member State in which the applicant has been allocated a sugar or an isoglucose quota. 3. Applications for export licences shall be submitted each week, from Monday to Friday, starting on the date of entry into force of the Regulation fixing the quantitative limit pursuant to Article 12(d) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 and until the issue of licences is discounted in accordance with Article 7e. 4. Applicants may submit one application for export licence per week. The quantity applied for in respect of each export licence shall not exceed 20 000 tonnes in the case of sugar and 5 000 tonnes in the case of isoglucose. 5. The application for export licence shall be accompanied by proof that the security referred to in Article 12a(1) has been lodged. 6. Box 20 of the application for an export licence and the licence, as well as box 44 of the export declaration shall contain one of the following entries as the case may be: (a) “out-of-quota sugar for export without refund”; or (b) “out-of-quota isoglucose for export without refund”. Article 7c Communication on out-of-quota exports 1. Member States shall notify the Commission, between Friday 1 p.m. (Brussels time) and the following Monday, of the quantities of sugar and/or isoglucose, for which applications for export licence have been submitted during the preceding week. The quantities applied for shall be broken down by eight-digit CN code. The Member States shall also inform the Commission if no applications for export licences have been submitted. This paragraph shall only apply to Member States for which a sugar and/or an isoglucose quota was fixed by Annex III and/or Point II of Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006. 2. The Commission shall draw up weekly records of the quantities for which export licence applications have been submitted. Article 7d Issue of licences 1. Every week from Friday and until the end of the following week at the latest Member States shall issue licences for the applications submitted the preceding week and notified as provided for in Article 7c(1), as the case may be taking account of the allocation coefficient fixed by the Commission in accordance with Article 7e. Export licences shall not be issued for quantities that had not been communicated. 2. Member States shall communicate, on the first working day of each week, to the Commission, the quantities of sugar and/or isoglucose for which export licences have been issued during the preceding week. 3. Member States shall keep a record of the quantities of sugar and/or isoglucose actually exported under the export licences. 4. Member States shall communicate to the Commission before the end of each month, the quantities of sugar and/or isoglucose actually exported under the export licences during the preceding month. 5. Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Article shall only apply to Member States for which a sugar and/or an isoglucose quota was fixed by Annex III and/or Point II of Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006. Article 7e Suspension of issuing export licences for out-of-quota exports Where the quantities applied for export licences exceed the quantitative limit fixed pursuant to Article 12(d) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 for the period concerned, the provisions laid down in Article 9 of this Regulation shall apply mutatis mutandis.’