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Articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 5 Quantity available for the second period for the issue of licences in July 2004 A quantity of 105 000 tonnes shall be available for the second period for the issue of licences in July 2004 with a view to the importation of bananas into the new Member States. 87 150 tonnes of that quantity shall be available to traditional operators and 17 850 tonnes to non-traditional operators. Article 6 Specific reference quantity for traditional operators for the period from 1 May to 31 December 2004 1. The competent authority of the Member State of registration shall give each traditional operator who carried out the minimum quantity of primary imports of bananas with a view to their sale in one or more of the new Member States during one of the years in the reference period 2000, 2001 or 2002 a specific reference quantity for the period from 1 May to 31 December 2004 based on the average of primary imports which that operator carried out during the above three-year period. This reference quantity shall be established on the basis of the supporting documents referred to in Article 6(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 6(4) of Regulation (EC) No 414/2004. This specific reference quantity shall be obtained by multiplying the annual average of primary imports referred to in the previous subparagraph by a coefficient of 0.667. 2. In the light of the Member States’ notifications and the quantity fixed in Article 3, the Commission shall, if necessary, set an adjustment coefficient to be applied to the specific reference quantity of each traditional operator. 3. The competent authorities shall inform each operator of its specific reference quantity, as adjusted where necessary by the adjustment coefficient referred to in paragraph 2, no later than the second working day following publication of the regulation fixing that coefficient. Article 7 Specific allocation to non-traditional operators for the period from 1 May to 31 December 2004 1. The competent authorities shall establish a specific allocation for each non-traditional operator registered with them, for the period from 1 May to 31 December 2004. In the light of the Member States’ notifications and the quantity fixed in Article 3, the Commission shall, if necessary, set an adjustment coefficient to be applied to the application for a specific allocation made by each non-traditional operator. 2. The competent authorities shall inform each non-traditional operator of its allocation no later than the second working day following publication of the regulation fixing that coefficient. Article 8 Submission of licence applications and issue of licences 1. Operators shall submit their import licence applications to the competent authorities of the Member State in which they are registered. 2. Import licences, hereinafter referred to as “accession licences”, shall be issued only for the release for free circulation in a new Member State. 3. Licence applications shall bear the words: “accession licence”, “traditional operator” or “non-traditional operator”, as the case may be, and “Regulation (EC) No 838/2004. Licence only valid in a new Member State”. These entries shall be entered in Box 20 of the licence.’