the export licence issued by the OCT authorities in accordance with the model form set out in the Annex, issued by the bodies responsible for issuing EUR 1 certificates;

Written tenders shall be submitted to the competent authority of a Member State in conjunction with and using the application form for an export licence as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000.

whereas in such a case coordination of the attitudes of the Member States with regard to this third country must be assured without delay, without prejudice to possible amendments to the list of countries and establishments authorised to export to the Community;

Having regard to Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions of drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs(1), as last amended by Decision 2001/4/EC(2), and in particular Article 2(1) thereof,

Where the total quantity covered by the licence applications submitted is such that there is a risk of early exhaustion of the maximum quantities which may be exported with refund during the 12-month period in question, the Commission may decide, in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68, to allocate those maximum quantities over periods to be determined.

LIST OF APPROVED ESTABLISHMENTS AND FACTORY VESSELS

Whereas it is necessary to amend the list of approved establishments and factory ships accordingly;

Written tenders shall be submitted to the competent authority of a Member State in conjunction with and using the application form for an export licence as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000. They shall be submitted by one of the following means:

Whereas it is necessary to provide that products from bovine animals not slaughtered in the United Kingdom should come from approved establishments under official veterinary control which have a system in place to ensure traceability to the origin of the raw materials;

'I, the undersigned, certify that this license is given for direct export to the European Community of the goods covered by the commercial invoice accompanying sales made subject to the undertaking and that the license is issued within the scope and under the terms of the undertaking offered by [company] and accepted by the European Commission through Decision 2002/683/EC.

comes from a treatment establishment and/or processing establishment offering equivalent guarantees to those laid down in Chapter II of Directive 92/46/EEC shown on the list of establishments authorized to export to the European Community and which is subject to supervision by the competent authority in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI of Annex C to Directive 92/46/EEC

comes from a processing establishment offering equivalent guarantees to those laid down in Chapter II of Directive 92/46/EEC shown on the list of establishments authorized to export to the European Community and which is subject to supervision by the competent authority in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI of Annex C to Directive 92/46/EEC

Such authorization shall be subject to the condition that the authorized consignor has previously given those authorities a written undertaking acknowledging that he is liable, without prejudice to any criminal proceedings, for the payment of any duties and other charges which have not been paid and for the repayment of any financial benefits which have been wrongly obtained following the use of control copy T5 forms bearing the imprint of the special stamp.

'ANNEX B LIST OF APPROVED ESTABLISHMENTS AND FACTORY VESSELS

Name(s) and official approval number(s) of establishment(s) approved by the INAPE for exports to the European Community:

Whereas, in accordance with Article 2 of Decision 95/408/EC, Mauritius has forwarded the data of one establishment authorized to export to the Community;

Whereas Argentina has forwarded, in accordance with Article 4 (3) of Directive 72/462/EEC, a list of the establishments authorized to export to the Community;

Whereas the United States of America has forwarded, in accordance with Article 4 (3) of Directive 72/462/EEC, a list of establishments authorized to export to the Community;

These lists should therefore be amended to include the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia list of approved establishments.

Having regard to Commission Decision 87/257/EEC of 28 April 1987 on the list of establishments in the United States of America approved for the purpose of importing fresh meat into the Community (2),

Written tenders shall be submitted to the competent authority of a Member State in conjunction with and using the application form for an export licence as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000.

By way of derogation from Article 2(1), Member States shall from 1 May to 31 August 2004 authorise the trade in products referred to in Article 1 which are obtained in establishments authorised to export to the Community provided that the products:

"I, the undersigned, certify that this license is given for direct export to the European Community of the goods covered by the commercial invoice accompanying sales made subject to the undertaking and that the license is issued within the scope and under the terms of the undertaking offered by [company] and accepted by the European Commission through Decision 2002/683/EC.

Council Decision 95/417/EC of 26 July 1995 concerning transitional measures necessary to facilitate the creation and orderly application of provisional establishments lists in third countries which are authorised to export animal products to the Community (OJ L 244, 12.10.1995, p. 78).

point 2(ii) shall be replaced by the following: "(ii) Subject to the provisions of UN Security Council Resolutions 1021(1995) and 1244(1999), export licence applications to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to Croatia and to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia shall be considered on a case-by-case basis.

whereas, in the light of those inspections, it is necessary to take into consideration at the moment only fully heat-treated canned bovine meat and frozen cooked bovine meat which is cooked to a centre temperature of at least 80 °C coming from establishments which are authorized to export to the Community;

Whereas, in the intervening period between conclusion of the Agreement and full implementation of the measures contained therein, interim measures are required to allow for the approval of additional establishments in the United States of America for the purpose of importing fresh bovine and porcine meat into the Community;

By way of derogation from Article 8, and where the products concerned are not produced in an establishment approved in accordance with Article 8, Member States shall authorize and register all establishments producing other products of animal origin defined in Article 2 (b) and give each of them a specific official number for inspection purposes and in order to be able to trace the establishment of origin of the products concerned.