22. 6. 96 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 149/17 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1122/96 ' of 21 June 1996 amending for the second time Regulation (EC) No 1370/95 laying down detailed rules for implementing the system of export licences in the pigmeat sector THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and by Regula- tion (EC) No 3290/94 (3, and in particular Articles 8 (2), 13(12) and 22 thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1370/95 (%), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2739/95 (%), lays down detailed rules for implementing the system of export licences in the pigmeat sector; Whereas it is appropriate, in the light of experience, to improve the outline relative to the lodging of applications and to the issuing of licences with a prolongation of the period for lodging applications and an amendment of the day of issuing licences; whereas it is necessary to incorpo- rate these changes into the various provisions of Regula- tion (EC) No 1370/95; Whereas it is necessary to allow the Commission to fix another day for the issuing of export licences when it is not possible for administrative reasons to respect the Wednesday; Whereas it is necessary to simplify the procedure relative to licences issued immediately referred to in Article 4 by abolishing the quantitative limitation of applications and allowing automatic validating of these licences where the Commission has not taken special measures; whereas it is justified to exclude these licences from the possibility of withdrawing the application at the time of setting a single percentage of acceptance in order to avoid administrative difficulties; Whereas it is necessary for licences which are issued immediately, to allow for a waiting period relative to the granting of the refund, during which licences may be amended, if need be, according to the special measures taken by the Commission; Whereas it is necessary to adjust the rates of security set in Annex I to meet the recent amendments in the refund rates; OJ No L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. OJ No L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105. OJ No L 133, 17. 6. 1995, p. 9. No L 285, 29. 11. 1995, p. 11. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Pigmeat, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1370/95 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 3 is amended as follows: {a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following text: ‘1. Applications for export licences may be lodged with the competent authorities from Monday to Friday of each week.; (b) in paragraph 3, ‘Monday’ is replaced by ‘Wednesday'’; (c) in paragraph 6 the second indent is replaced by the following text: ‘— or request immediate issuing of the licence, in which case the competent authority shall issue it without delay but no sooner than the normal issue date for the relevant week. (d) the following paragraph is added: ‘7. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, the Commission can set a day other than Wednesday for the issuing of export licences when it is not possible to respect this day. 2. Article 4 is replaced by the following text: Article 4 1.  Upon written request of the operator, at the time of lodging the application, the competent authority shall immediately issue the licence applied for by indi- cating in section 22 at least one of the following: — Certificado de exportacion expedido sin perjuicio de medidas especiales de conformidad con el apar- tado 4 del articulo 3 del Reglamento (CE) n° 1370/95; la restitucién se concederd como minimo quince dias laborables después de la fecha de su espedicion