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1. Prior authorization shall be granted only where it is possible for the competent authorities to identify temporarily exported goods in the reimported compensating products.

2. The competent authorities may refuse entitlement under the scheme where they find that they are unable to obtain all the necessary guarantees to enable them to exercise effective control over the observance of the provisions of Article 2.

3. The prior authorization shall lay down the conditions under which the processing operations are to take place; these shall include:

— the quantities of goods to be exported and of products to be reimported, calculated by reference to the rate of yield fixed in the light of the technical data relating to the processing operation or operations to be carried out, if the data have been established or, if not, the data available in the Community for operations of the same kind,

— the procedures for identifying the temporarily exported goods in the compensating products,

— the time limit for reimportation depending upon the time necessary to carry out the processing operation or operations.

4. Where the competent authorities establish that the level of employment in the applicant's firm has been significantly reduced due to outward processing operations carried out in any one year, those competent authorities shall similarly reduce the quantities which can be requested under this Regulation by that applicant in the following year.