for any other purpose, only with the prior consent of the requested State.

They may also make the printing of the forms conditional on prior technical approval.

The taking up of the business of direct insurance shall be subject to prior official authorization.

The Member State of the branch or of the provision of services shall not adopt provisions requiring the prior approval or systematic notification of general and special policy conditions, scales of premiums, or forms and other printed documents which an undertaking intends to use in its dealings with policyholders.

When the compensating products are reimported into the Community, the person declaring them shall submit to the competent authorities, without prejudice to any other Community rules governing trade with the third country concerned, the prior authorization together with proof that the processing operation has in fact been performed in the third country stated in the prior authorization.

The prior authorization shall lay down the conditions under which the processing operations are to take place;

has been the subject of a previous procedure according to paragraph 2 which has not resulted in the grant of an authorization;

Where a condition for granting a prior authorization is not satisfied, the competent authorities reject the application.

PARTICULARS WHICH MUST BE SUPPLIED IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 4, 5 AND 6

For the purposes of Article 3 (2) of the basic Regulation, the expression 'quantities available within the overall Community quota for the entire category and the third country concerned` is understood to mean the quantities available in the framework of the quota established for the year during which the quantity requested by an operator has been notified to the Commission by the competent authorities which have received the application for the prior authorization.

For the application of this paragraph, 'unused quantities' shall be considered to be those quantities for which prior authorizations have been issued but not used within a time limit of six months or nine months in case of extension of the original time limit by the competent authorities (i.e. the temporary export formalities for the entire quantity of raw material indicated in the prior authorization have not been completed).

When the application concerns a category of products whose release into free circulation in the Community is subject to the measures provided for in Article 1 (3) of the basic Regulation, the prior authorization is issued by the competent authorities only when the Commission has confirmed the availability of the quantity notified by the authorities managing the request in accordance with the procedures laid down in Annex VII of Regulation (EEC) No 3030/93.

When the request concerns products subject, in the named third country, to specific quantitive limits with respect to economic outward processing, the applicant must declare that he has not and will not introduce another request concerning the same category and third country to another Member State's competent authorities, as long as he has not received a decision on his request for a prior authorization.

Member States shall not make the provision of certification services subject to prior authorisation.

Whereas applications, prior authorizations and the documents belonging to them should be kept for a prescribed period;

whereas, in urgent cases, it should be possible to grant these exemptions for a limited time without prior authorization from the Commission;

where this is done, a note shall be made on the prior authorization as and when each consignment arrives.

This repealing does not affect the validity of any prior authorization issued in application of these Regulations.

Operational protection of the population in normal circumstances from practices subject to prior authorization means all arrangements and surveys for detecting and eliminating the factors which, in the course of any operation involving exposure to ionizing radiation, are liable to create a risk of exposure for the population which cannot be disregarded from the radiation protection point of view.

the quantities covered by export licence applications withdrawn pursuant to Article 3(6) during the preceding week.

The authorities issuing partial authorizations shall charge the quantities concerned against copies Nos 1, 3 and possibly 2 of the initially granted prior authorization.

The Member States shall designate the authorities competent for the issue of prior authorizations and shall notify the Commission accordingly.

Where, for reasons beyond the control of the authorization holder, no decision may be taken on the renewal application before the expiry date of the authorization, the period of authorization of the additive shall be automatically extended until the Commission takes a decision.

Existing application and prior authorization forms may continue to be used, however, until 30 June 1996.

Article 497 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, shall apply mutatis mutandis where the applicant requests to modify a prior authorization.

The competent authorities shall keep appplications and accompanying documents together with copy No 2 of any prior authorization issued.

whenever the previous issue of an import authorization by the destination country is a requirement for the issue of the export authorization, the entry shall contain the number (if any) and place and date of issue of the import permit issued by the destination country;

For the purposes of Article 3 (5) (3) of the basic Regulation the value of the Community production is calculated on the basis of the normal ex factory price, exclusive of VAT, of products, shown in Annex II of the basic Regulation that have been manufactured in the Community in the previous year, whether in the applicant's factory or on his account by another manufacturer, as much as the latter business does not also introduce a request for prior authorization for the same Community production for the same period.

Except with the prior written agreement of the Board of Directors, shares may not be pledged or encumbered in any way.

However, any such communication must have the prior authorization of the judicial authority if the necessity of such authorization derives from national law.

The applicant shall return, within 15 days of the expiry period, all prior authorizations, unused or partly used, to the competent authorities who delivered that authorization.

Without prejudice to Article 10, one partial prior authorization may not give rise to the issue of another partial authorization.

When an authorised product previously placed on the market in the authorising Member State is no longer actually present on the market for a period of three consecutive years, the authorisation for that product shall cease to be valid.

No fishing vessel may leave Angola's fishing zone without obtaining the prior authorisation of the Fisheries Surveillance Directorate of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry after the catches on board have been checked.

Where the issue of one or more partial authorizations discharges the initial prior authorization, the competent authorities shall retain copy No 1 of this prior authorization and shall inform the customs supervising office.

not, during the term of the contract, to alter the composition of the lot which is the subject of the contract without prior authorization from the intervention agency.

The competent authorities of the Member States, before issuing prior authorizations, shall notify the Commission of the amounts of the requests that they have received.

The MAH proposed to include preliminary data in paediatric patients in the SPC.

No such authorization may be given to a resident of another Member State without the latter's prior agreement.

Whereas economic operators must be notified of the authorities competent to issue prior authorizations in each Member State;

Prior authorizations may not be transferred and can only be used by the person named in the authorization or by his authorized representative.

Whereas the smooth operation of the arrangements in the single market calls for uniform procedures for issuing and checking such prior authorizations;

Whereas procedures for the issue of prior authorizations and the control of such essential aspects as the origin of goods should be introduced;

whereas following this prior check, the supervisory authority may, according to its national law, give an opinion or an authorization regarding the processing;

Account should also be taken of Council Directive 80/836/Euratom of 15 July 1980 amending the Directives laying down the basic safety standards for the health protection of the general public and workers against the dangers of ionizing radiation(16), the objective of which is to prevent the exposure of workers or patients to excessive or unnecessarily high levels of ionizing radiation, and in particular of Article 5c thereof, which requires prior authorization for the addition of radioactive substances to medicinal products as well as for the importation of such medicinal products.

Member States may, after authorization by the Commission, exempt from application of this Regulation vehicles used for the transport operations referred to in Article 13 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85.

charge the quantities reimported against the prior authorization, and - inform the customs supervising office by a copy of the import declaration.

In the event that copy No 3 has already been sent to the customs supervising office, the competent authorities shall inform the customs supervising office about the partial prior authorization.

When an authorised medicinal product previously placed on the market is no longer actually present on the market for three consecutive years, the authorisation shall cease to be valid.

Prior authorizations delivered by electronic means may only be used in customs offices having access to these authorizations across a computer network.