23.2.2012   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 53/18

1.

This Notice is addressed to undertakings that are concerned by the Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on substances that deplete the ozone layer (the Regulation) and which intend:

This Notice is also addressed to companies in Croatia which intend to carry out those activities after the accession of Croatia to the European Union. Those companies are requested to follow the instructions set out in paragraphs 5 and 6.

2.

The following groups of substances are concerned:

3.

Any import or export of substances exempted from the general import or export ban requires a licence by the Commission, except in cases of transit, temporary storage, customs warehousing or free zone procedure as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 450/2008, lasting not longer than 45 days. Furthermore, any production of controlled substances requires prior authorisation.

4.

Imports for free circulation in the European Union are subject to quantitative limits, determined by the Commission on the basis of the import declarations for controlled substances for the following uses:

5.

Quotas for production and imports for laboratory and analytical uses will be allocated in accordance with Article 10(6) of the Regulation and Commission Regulation (EU) No 537/2011 (1). The request for a quota for laboratory and analytical uses follows the same procedure as indicated below for imports.

6.

Any undertaking that wishes to import or export controlled substances in 2013 and that has not requested an import or export licence (before 2010, referred to as export authorisation) in the previous years, needs to notify the Commission by submitting no later than 16 May 2012 the registration form available online (http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/review_2037/library). Following the registration, undertakings need to follow the procedure described in paragraph 7.

7.

Undertakings that are registered in the Main-ODS-database as an importer or exporter should complete and submit the relevant declaration form available online in the Main-ODS-database (http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ozone/ods_en.htm).

8.

The declaration forms in the Main-ODS-database will be available as of 16 May 2012.

9.

Only duly completed declaration forms that are free of errors received by 30 June 2012 will be considered as valid by the Commission.

Undertakings are encouraged to submit their declaration as soon as possible and sufficiently ahead of the deadline to allow for potential corrections within the declaration period.

10.

The submission of a declaration by itself does not give any right to perform imports, exports or, in the case of controlled substances for laboratory and analytical uses, production. Before an import, export or production takes place in 2013, undertakings must have submitted a corresponding declaration and must apply for a licence using the online application form available online in the Main-ODS-database.