Other Criteria Or Mixed Systems Sample Clauses

Other Criteria Or Mixed Systems administration methods which do not clearly fall within any of the above categories or administration methods involving a combination of the methods as set out above with no one method being dominant. Moreover, Articles 1.2 and 3.2 make it clear that the Licensing Agreement is also concerned with, among other things, preventing trade distortions that may be caused by licensing procedures. It follows that wherever an import licensing regime is applied, these requirements must be observed. The requirement to prevent trade distortion found in Articles 1.2 and 3.2 of the Licensing Agreement refers to any trade distortion that may be caused by the introduction or operation of licensing procedures, and is not necessarily limited to that part of trade to which the licensing procedures themselves apply. There may be situations where the operation of licensing procedures, in fact, have restrictive or distortive effects on that part of trade that is not strictly subject to those procedures.30 The Agreement sets up time limits for the publication of information concerning licensing procedures, for processing of licence applications, and for notification to the Committee on Import Licensing. The Agreement requires prior publication of rules and all information concerning procedures for the submission of applications for licences, including the eligibility of persons, firms or institutions to make such applications, the administrative bodies to be approached, and the list of products subject to the licensing requirement, in such 30 xxxx://xxxxxx.xxx/en/docs/edmmisc232add32_en.pdf (visited on 13/05/2014) a manner as to enable Governments and traders to become acquainted with them. The Agreement further requires application forms for import licences and renewal forms to be as simple as possible. Foreign exchange is to be made available for licensed imports on the same basis as for goods not requiring import licences (Article 1.9).