Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector
Date: 2001-06-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: common organisation of markets, sugar

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1260/2001

of 19 June 2001

on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 36 and 37
thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

In order to work properly, the common agricultural policy requires a common organisation of the
markets in the sugar sector covering, in particular, sugar and isoglucose and insulin syrup, which are
liquid substitutes for sugar.

In order to achieve the objectives of the common agricultural policy, and in particular to ensure that
Community growers of sugar beet and sugar cane continue to benefit from the necessary guarantees
in respect of employment and standards of living, the market in sugar should be stabilised. This
objective can be attained by allowing intervention agencies to buy in sugar. For this purpose, an
intervention price for white sugar should be fixed for areas having no deficit, as well as an
intervention price for raw sugar, and, every year for each of the deficit areas, a derived intervention
price for white sugar and, if necessary, for raw sugar. The intervention price must be fixed at a level
which will ensure a fair income for sugar-beet and sugar-cane producers while taking account of the
interests of consumers. Such price guarantees for sugar also benefit sugar syrups, isoglucose and
insulin syrup, the prices of which are based on sugar prices. In view of the financial perspective and
the budgetary rules adopted by the European Council in Berlin in March 1999, the support prices in
the sugar sector should be fixed for the whole duration of the new arrangements.

The intervention price must be fixed for standard qualities of white sugar and raw sugar which
should be defined. Such standard qualities should be average qualities representative of sugar
produced in the Community and should be determined on the basis of criteria used by the sugar
trade. It must also be possible to review the standard qualities to take account, in particular, of
commercial requirements and developments in analysis techniques.

(1) OJ C 29 E, 30.1.2001, p. 315.
(2) Opinion delivered on 13 March 2001 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(3) OJ C 116, 20.4.2001, p. 113.

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(4)

The geographical situation of the French overseas departments calls for appropriate measures for the
sugar produced in those departments.

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

So as not to interfere with the prices referred to above, intervention agencies must sell sugar at a
price higher than the intervention price unless it is to be exported either without further processing
or in the form of processed products, or used as animal feed. One consequence of this rule is that
sugar cannot be made available to charitable organisations for use for human consumption in the
Community. It should nevertheless be possible to dispose of sugar in this fashion through individual
emergency aid operations intended to ensure the availability of supplies and thus representing at the
same time a humanitarian operation. Such operations are effective only if rapidly implemented. The
most appropriate procedure should therefore be used in such instances.

Like starch products, sugar is a commodity which can be used by the chemical industry for the
manufacture of similar products. A harmonious development of the use of such commodities should
be ensured. A system of production refunds should be adopted which makes it possible to expand
sugar outlets beyond traditional quantities; to that end, it should henceforth be possible to make the
products in question available to that industry at a reduced price.

These rules should ensure fair treatment for both manufacturers and producers of the basic products.
In addition to the basic price derived from the intervention price for white sugar, undertakings'
receipts from sales of molasses, which can be estimated at EUR 7,61 per 100 kg derived from the
price of molasses estimated at EUR 8,21 per 100 kg, as well as the cost incurred in processing and
delivering beet to factories, and on the basis of a yield which for the Community can be estimated at
130 kg of white sugar per tonne of standard-quality beet, minimum prices should therefore be fixed
for A beet intended for processing into A sugar and for B beet intended for processing into B sugar,
to be paid by sugar manufacturers buying beet.

Specific instruments are needed to ensure a fair balance of rights and obligations between manufac-
turers and growers, in particular standard Community provisions should be laid down to govern the
contractual relations between buyers and sellers of beet and adequate measures adopted for the same
purpose for sugar cane. The provisions relating to the normal duration and staggering of deliveries,
collection centres and transport costs, reception points and the taking of samples, the return of pulp
or the payment of equivalent compensation and time limits for advance payments all affect the
actual price of beet received by the seller. The diversity of natural, economic and technical situations
makes it very difficult to have uniform purchase terms for beet throughout the Community.
Agreements within the trade exist between manufacturers or manufacturers' organisations and
planters' organisations. Framework provisions should simply define the minimum guarantees
required by both beet planters and the industry to ensure the smooth functioning of the sugar
economy and the possibility of derogating from some rules referred to in Annex III should be kept
for agreements within the trade.

The reasons which have hitherto led the Community to adopt a production quota system for sugar,
isoglucose and insulin syrup currently remain valid. However, that system has been adjusted to take
account of recent developments in production, to provide the Community with the instruments
necessary to ensure, in a fair yet efficient way, that the producers themselves meet in full the cost of
disposing of the surpluses of Community production over consumption and to comply with the
Community's obligations under the Agreements resulting from the Uruguay Round of multilateral
trade negotiations, hereinafter referred to as ‘GATT’, approved by Decision 94/800/EC (1).

(1) OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 1.

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(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

(16)

The agreement on agriculture concluded under the GATT agreements (hereinafter referred to as ‘the
Agreement’)
in particular requires the Community to gradually reduce its export support for
agricultural products and in particular for sugar under guarantee of production quotas. The Agree-
ment provides for export support to be reduced, in terms of both the quantities covered and the level
of the subsidies involved, over a transitional period. As a first step in adjusting the guarantees, the
difference recorded for a given marketing year between the Community's exportable volume and the
amount set in the Agreement should be apportioned between sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup
according to the percentages which the quotas of each represent in the total quota set for all three
products for the Community. However, such a system should apply for a limited period only and
should be regarded as transitional. In view,
in particular, of the financial perspective and the
budgetary rules adopted by the European Council in Berlin in March 1999 and the need to take
account of the progress of negotiations under the WTO, the quota system should be maintained for
the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years.

The common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector is based, firstly, on the principle that
producers should bear full financial responsibility for the losses incurred each marketing year from
disposing of that part of Community production under quota which is surplus to the Community's
internal consumption and, secondly, on a differentiation of price guarantees for disposal reflecting
the production quota allocated to each undertaking. A sugar production quota is allocated to each
undertaking on the basis of its actual production during a particular reference period.

Since commitments to reduce export support were implemented during the transitional period, the
basic quantities of sugar and isoglucose and the quotas for insulin syrup should be kept at their
present levels, but it must be possible for the relevant guarantees to be adjusted as necessary to
enable the Community to comply with its commitments under the Agreement, while taking account
its sugar sector. The sector's system of
of
self-financing through production levies and the production quota regime should be maintained.

factors affecting the situation of

the fundamental

The producers should thus continue to assume financial responsibility by paying a basic production
levy charged on all production of A and B sugar, which is however limited to 2 % of the intervention
price for white sugar, and a B levy charged on the production of B sugar up to a limit of 37,5 % of
that price. In certain circumstances, producers of isoglucose and insulin syrup also pay a proportion
of those contributions. Capping the levies in the manner described above means that in some
marketing years sugar production is not fully self-financing. An additional levy should be charged in
those cases.

In the interests of equal treatment, the additional levy should be calculated for each undertaking on
the basis of its share in the revenue generated by the production levies which it has paid for the
marketing year in question. A coefficient should therefore be fixed for the Community as a whole
representing the ratio for that marketing year between the total loss recorded and the total revenue
generated by the production levies concerned. It is necessary to specify the conditions under which
beet and cane sellers are to contribute to eliminating the outstanding loss for the marketing year
concerned.

In any given marketing year, the consumption, production, importation, stock and carryover levels,
and the average loss likely to be borne under the self-financing scheme, may be such that the
production quotas allocated to each undertaking in the sugar sector result in an export volume
exceeding that set in the Agreement. The guarantees linked to the quotas should therefore be
adjusted each marketing year so that the Community can meet its commitments.

The breakdown between sugar,
isoglucose and insulin syrup should be followed by a further
breakdown between the Member States to take account of the guarantees linked to the quotas
assigned to producing undertakings in each Member State so that those guarantees can be adjusted in
a way that does not affect the existing balance of quotas and burden-sharing. A reduction coefficient
for the A and B guarantees should therefore be fixed for each Member State based on the maximum
contributions pertaining to those guarantees. Each Member State concerned should then make an
allocation among undertakings which takes account of the guarantees arising for each undertaking
from its own quotas.

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(17)

The A and B quotas are affected, following a merger or transfer of undertakings, the transfer by an
undertaking of one of its factories or the cessation of activities of an undertaking or of one of its
factories. The conditions for adjustment by the Member States of the quotas of the undertakings in
question should be established while ensuring that changes to the quotas of sugar-producing
undertakings are not detrimental to the interests of the beet producers or cane producers concerned.

(18) Given the need to allow for a certain structural adjustment of the processing industry and of beet
and cane growing during the period in which these quotas are to be applied, Member States should
be allowed to alter the quotas of undertakings by a maximum of 10 %. However, in view of the
particular situation of the sugar sector in Spain, Italy and the French overseas departments, this limit
should not be applied in those regions while restructuring plans are being implemented.

(19)

(20)

Since allocating production quotas to undertakings is a way of ensuring that producers are paid
Community prices and have an outlet for their production, the interests of all the parties concerned,
in particular beet and cane producers, should be taken into consideration when quotas are trans-
ferred inside production regions.

To expand the outlets for sugar and isoglucose on the Community's internal market, it should be
possible to put all sugar or isoglucose intended for manufacture in the Community of products other
than foodstuffs out of production, within the meaning of the quota system, under conditions to be
laid down.

(21) A Community market for sugar as for isoglucose and insulin syrup requires a common trading
system at the external frontiers of the Community. A trading system including import levies and
export refunds will stabilise the Community market, in particular, by preventing prices inside the
Community from being affected by price fluctuations on the world market. A levy should therefore
be charged on imports from third countries and a refund paid on exports to such countries to
compensate for the difference between prices on the sugar market inside and outside the Community
when world market prices are lower than the Community prices, and to provide a certain measure of
protection for the Community industry processing isoglucose and insulin syrup.

(22)

To ensure that these trading arrangements can function properly, it must be possible to regulate or
prohibit the use of inward-processing arrangements when the situation on the market so requires.

(23)

(24)

(25)

Should a shortage on the world market result in higher prices on the world market than in the
Community, or should all or part of the Community be unable to obtain normal supplies, it must be
possible to act in good time to avoid a situation where regional surpluses are exported to third
countries while an abnormal rise in Community prices makes it impossible to continue to supply
consumers at reasonable prices.

The competent authorities must be in a position to constantly monitor movements in trade with
third countries so as to assess trends and apply such of the measures provided for in this Regulation
as may prove necessary. To this end, there should be a system of import and export licences, to be
issued only after a security has been lodged to ensure that the operation covered by a licence
application is actually carried out.

The system of customs duties makes it possible to dispense with all other forms of protection at the
external frontiers of the Community. However, in exceptional circumstances the prices and customs
duties machinery could break down. So as not to leave the Community market unprotected against
disturbances which may ensue in such cases, the Community should be able to take whatever
measures are necessary without delay. Such measures must comply with the Community's obliga-
tions under the GATT Agreements. Moreover,
in order to avert problems of supply to the
it must be possible to suspend customs duties on certain sugar products.
Community market,

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(26)

The Community has made an overall examination of its refining industry. This examination has
shown that if a steadier and more even flow of supplies to refineries throughout the Community is
to be achieved, a clear estimate is needed of the traditional presumed maximum requirements of raw
sugar for refining into white sugar in each of the Member States concerned, namely Finland, France,
Portugal and the United Kingdom, using objective reference data and taking into account the
quantities of sugar going for direct consumption recorded for the 1994/1995 marketing year. A
special preferential arrangement for access to the Community market should therefore be introduced,
allowing the refining industry to import on special terms certain quantities of raw cane sugar
originating in the ACP States party to Protocol No 3 to Annex IV to the ACP-EC Partnership
Agreement and in India and other States under agreements with those States. Those quantities are to
be determined within the limits of the traditional presumed maximum requirements referred to
above on the basis of forecast supply balances once all available raw cane and beet sugar of
Community origin and preferential raw sugar and raw sugar originating in countries benefiting from
tariff quotas under trade concessions granted by the Community have been refined. In order to
counterbalance the Community's commitments to reduce export support, the quantities imported to
cover the traditional requirements of the refining industry should be reduced.

(27) Under Article 1 of the said Protocol and Article 1 of the Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Republic of India on cane sugar, these preferential import arrangements must be
implemented within the framework of the common organisation of the market in sugar.

(28)

It is necessary to create the means for ensuring that raw cane sugar imported under the said
preferential arrangements is refined under the fairest possible conditions of competition.

(29)

(30)

Sugar refining is an important activity both at world level and in the Community, particularly in
refineries converting raw sugar into white sugar. From a technical point of view, refining turns sugar
cane into high-quality products that can meet market requirements. Moreover, these refineries are
located in areas of high consumption. The Community's port-related refining industry is therefore a
valuable complement to the beet-processing industry, especially in Finland, mainland Portugal, the
United Kingdom and southern and western France.

Examination of supplies to port refineries throughout the Community, suggests that special priority
access should be given to raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States party to Protocol No 3 and
India, under special agreements negotiated between the Community and the countries referred to in
Protocol No 3 and/or other countries and based on an estimate of the Community's requirements
once all available raw cane and beet sugar in the Community, preferential raw sugar and raw sugar
originating in countries benefiting from tariff quotas under trade concessions granted by the
Community have been refined.

(31) Until the 2000/2001 marketing year, the refining industry received Community adjustment aid for
refining preferential raw cane sugar and raw sugar from cane and beet harvested in the Community.
In the light of experience, this aid should continue and provision should be made for it to be
adjusted to take account of economic trends in the sugar sector, particularly manufacturing and
refining margins.

(32)

Some transitional measures may prove necessary and this need may arise at each changeover from
one marketing year to the next or during a single marketing year. It should therefore be possible to
adopt the appropriate measures.

(33)

To facilitate implementation of this Regulation, a procedure is needed for close cooperation between
Member States and the Commission within a Management Committee for Sugar.

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(34) Owing to its specific characteristics and the size of agricultural holdings, the beet industry in the
south of Italy faces persistent difficulties. Beet growing in that area is essential in order to regenerate
soils with a particularly high level of clay and thus to avoid a return to single-crop farming; Italy
should therefore be authorised to grant the southern regions national aid over the next five
marketing years in respect of the same amount and under the same conditions as for the 2000/2001
marketing year. Sugar cane production in Spain is encountering specific problems in keeping up
with other crops; to enable this particular production to be maintained, Spain should be authorised
to grant national aid for sugar cane production over the next five marketing years in respect of the
same amount and under the same conditions as for the 2000/2001 marketing year. Beet production
in Portugal, having regard to the fact that this is a new industry, faces persistent difficulties; sugar
beet producers need to be encouraged to increase production in view of these difficulties; Portugal
should therefore be authorised to grant national aid for beet production over the next five marketing
years in respect of the same amount and under the same conditions as for the 2000/2001 marketing
year. Climatic conditions make it very difficult to grow beet in Finland, which leads to considerable
variability in production; consequently, Finland should be authorised to grant a flat-rate reimburse-
ment of storage costs for carried-over C sugar and the detailed rules for such reimbursement should
be determined.

(35)

In order to take account of environmental objectives, Member States should draw up and implement
suitable environmental measures they consider to be appropriate concerning the use of agricultural
land for the production of the products referred to in Article 1. In future, Member States may
introduce measures to promote production in accordance with objective environmental criteria and
remind producers of the need to comply with the legislation in force. The Member States must
submit a report on the impact of national environmental measures on the agricultural production
sector of the sugar sector.

(36) Under Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the
common agricultural policy (1), the expenses incurred by the Member States in meeting obligations
arising from the application of this Regulation are to be borne by the Community.

(37)

(38)

The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance
with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of
implementing powers conferred on the Commission (2).

The support arrangements introduced by this Regulation replace the arrangements provided for by
Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13 September 1999 on the common organisation of the
markets in the sugar sector (3), which must be repealed along with Regulations (EEC) No 206/68 (4),
(EEC) No 431/68 (5), (EEC) No 447/68 (6), (EEC) No 2049/69 (7), (EEC) No 793/72 (8), (EEC) No
741/75 (9), (EEC) No 1358/77 (10), (EEC) No 1789/81 (11), (EEC) No 193/82 (12), (EEC) No 1010/
86 (13) and (EEC) No 2225/86 (14) laying down the general rules for its implementation.

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.
(3) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(4) Council Regulation (EEC) No 206/68 of 20 February 1968 laying down outline provisions for contracts and inter-

trade agreements on the purchase of beet (OJ L 47, 23.2.1968, p. 1).

(5) Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the

Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3).

(6) Council Regulation (EEC) No 447/68 of 9 April 1968 laying down general rules for intervention buying of sugar (OJ
L 91, 12.4.1968, p. 5). Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1359/77 (OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p. 7).
(7) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2049/69 of 17 October 1969 laying down general rules on the denaturing of sugar for

animal feed (OJ L 263, 21.10.1969, p. 1).

(8) Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 fixing the standard quality for white sugar (OJ L 94,

21.4.1972, p. 1).

(9) Council Regulation (EEC) No 741/75 of 18 March 1975 laying down special rules for the purchase of sugar beet (OJ

L 74, 22.3.1975, p. 2).

(10) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying down general rules for offsetting storage costs for

sugar and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 (OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p. 4).

(11) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1789/81 of 30 June 1981 laying down general rules concerning the system of
minimum stocks in the sugar sector (OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 39). Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
725/97 (OJ L 108, 25.4.1997, p. 13).

(12) Council Regulation (EEC) No 193/82 of 26 January 1982 laying down general rules for transfers of quotas in the

sugar sector (OJ L 21, 29.1.1982, p. 3).

(13) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March 1986 laying down general rules for the production refund on

certain sugar products used in the chemical

industry (OJ L 94, 9.4.1986, p. 9).

(14) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86 of 15 July 1986 laying down measures for the marketing of sugar produced
in the French overseas departments and for the equalisation of the price conditions with preferential raw sugar (OJ L
194, 17.7.1986, p. 7).

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(39)

Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provided for a system for compensating storage costs. Since the
regime to be introduced by this Regulation does not include such a system, transitional provisions
should be adopted to ease the transition from the old system to the new one. To that end, firstly, the
balance of the old compensation system for storage costs should be charged, if negative, or credited,
if positive, to the system for financing the disposal of surplus Community production in the sugar
sector and, secondly, the date of disposal for the purposes of paying the storage levy for sugar in
storage at the date of entry into application of this Regulation should be deemed to be the last day of
the 2000/2001 marketing year.

(40)

It should be possible to adopt transitional rules to ease the transition from the regime provided for
by Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 to the new arrangements introduced by this Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Scope and definitions

The common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector established by this Regulation shall

1.
cover the following products:

CN Code

Description

(a)

1701

Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose,

in solid form

(b)

1212 91
1212 92 00

Sugar beet
Sugar cane

(c)

1703

Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar

(d)

1702 20

Maple sugar and maple syrup

1702 60 95
1702 90 99

Other sugars in solid form and sugar syrups, not containing added flavouring or colouring
matter, but not including lactose, glucose, maltodextrine and isoglucose

1702 90 60

Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey

1702 90 71

Caramel containing 50 % or more by weight of sucrose in the dry matter

2106 90 59

Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups, other than isoglucose, lactose, glucose and maltodextrine
syrups

(e)

2303 20

Beet pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture

(f)

1702 30 10
1702 40 10
1702 60 10
1702 90 30

Isoglucose

(g)

2106 90 30

Flavoured or coloured isoglucose syrups

(h)

1702 60 80
1702 90 80

Insulin syrup

2.

For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a) ‘white sugars’ means sugars, not flavoured or coloured or containing any other added substances,
containing, in the dry state, 99,5 % or more by weight of sucrose, determined by the polarimetric
method;

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(b) ‘raw sugars’ means sugars, not flavoured or coloured or containing any other added substances,
containing, in the dry state, 99,5 % by weight of sucrose, determined by the polarimetric method;

(c) ‘isoglucose’ means the product obtained from glucose or its polymers with a content by weight in the

dry state of at least 10 % fructose;

(d) ‘insulin syrup’ means the immediate product obtained by hydrolysis of insulin or oligofructoses,

containing in the dry state at least 10 % fructose in free form or as sucrose;

(e) ‘A sugar’ and ‘A isoglucose’ means any quantity of sugar or isoglucose production attributed to a

specific marketing year under the A quota of the undertaking concerned;

(f) ‘B sugar’ and ‘B isoglucose’ means any quantity of sugar or isoglucose production attributed to a
specific marketing year in excess of the A quota but within the sum of the A and B quotas of the
undertaking concerned;

(g) ‘C sugar’ and ‘C isoglucose’ means any quantity of sugar or isoglucose production attributed to a
specific marketing year either over and above the sum of the A and B quotas of the undertaking
concerned or by an undertaking which has no quota;

(h) ‘A beet’ means all beet processed into A sugar;

(i) ‘B beet’ means all beet processed into B sugar;

(j) ‘A insulin syrup’ means any quantity of insulin syrup production, expressed as sugar/isoglucose
equivalent, attributed to a specific marketing year under the A quota of the undertaking concerned;

(k) ‘B insulin syrup’ means any quantity of insulin syrup production, expressed as sugar/isoglucose
equivalent, attributed to a specific marketing year in excess of the A quota but within the sum of the A
and B quotas of the undertaking concerned;

(l) ‘C insulin syrup’ means any quantity of insulin syrup production, expressed as sugar/isoglucose
equivalent, attributed to a specific marketing year either over and above the sum of the A and B quotas
of the undertaking concerned or by an undertaking which has no quota;

(m) for all the products listed in paragraph 1, ‘marketing year’ means the period beginning on 1 July and

ending on 30 June of the following year.

TITLE I

INTERNAL MARKET

CHAPTER 1

Prices

Article 2

1.

For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, for white sugar:

(a) the intervention price shall be EUR 63,19/100 kg,

(b) a derived intervention price shall be fixed each year for each of the deficit areas.

For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, the intervention price for raw sugar shall be

2.
EUR 52,37/100 kg.

Where it is necessary to market raw sugar produced in a deficit area, a derived intervention price may be
fixed for such sugar.

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The intervention prices referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply to unpacked sugar, ex-factory,

3.
loaded on to a means of transport chosen by the purchaser.

They shall be valid for white sugar and raw sugar of the standard quality described in Annex I.

Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2), the Commission shall fix derived

4.
intervention prices for white sugar each year, and for raw sugar when necessary.

Derived intervention prices shall be fixed taking account of the costs of transporting sugar from surplus
areas to deficit areas.

The Commission may amend Annex I in accordance with the same procedure.

Article 3

For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, the basic price for beet of the standard quality

1.
shall be EUR 47,67 per tonne delivered to the collection centre.

The standard quality for beet shall be as described in Annex II.

2.

The Commission may amend Annex II in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 4

1.

For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years:

(a) the minimum price for A beet shall be EUR 46,72 per tonne;

(b) subject to Article 15(5), the minimum price for B beet shall be EUR 32,42 per tonne.

For areas for which a derived intervention price is fixed for white sugar, the minimum prices for A
2.
beet and B beet shall be increased by an amount equal to the difference between the derived intervention
price for the area concerned and the intervention price, such amount being adjusted by the coefficient 1.30.

1. Without prejudice to Article 21 and the provisions adopted under Article 14, sugar manufacturers
buying beet:

Article 5

(a) suitable for processing into sugar,

and

(b) intended for processing into sugar,

shall be required to pay at least a minimum price, adjusted by price increases or reductions to allow for
deviations from the standard quality.

2.

The minimum price referred to in paragraph 1 shall correspond:

(a) in non-deficit areas, to:

— the minimum price for A beet,

in the case of beet to be processed into A sugar,

— the minimum price for B beet,

in the case of beet to be processed into B sugar;

(b) in deficit areas:

— the minimum price for A beet adjusted in accordance with Article 4(2), in the case of beet to be

processed into A sugar,

— the minimum price for B beet adjusted in accordance with Article 4(2), in the case of beet to be

processed into B sugar.

Detailed rules for applying this Article, as well as the price increases and reductions, shall be adopted

3.
in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

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Article 6

1.
Agreements within the trade and contracts concluded between buyers and sellers of beet must
conform to the standard provisions set out in Annex III hereto, in particular as regards the conditions
governing the purchase, delivery, taking over and payment of beet.

The terms for buying sugar cane shall be governed by agreements within the trade concluded between

2.
Community sugar-cane producers and Community sugar manufacturers.

The terms for buying the agricultural raw materials for the manufacture of insulin syrup shall be governed
by agreements within the trade between Community growers of those raw materials and insulin syrup
producers.

If necessary, detailed rules for applying paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be adopted in accordance with the

3.
procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

If no agreements within the trade exist, the Member State concerned may take the necessary steps

4.
under this Regulation to protect the interests of the parties concerned.

The Member State concerned shall inform the Commission without delay of measures taken under the first
subparagraph.

Article 7

1.
Throughout the marketing year, and subject to conditions to be determined in accordance with
paragraphs 5 and 6, the intervention agency designated by each sugar-producing Member State shall be
required to buy in any white and raw sugar produced under quota offered to it which has been
manufactured from beet and cane harvested in the Community, provided a storage contract has first been
concluded between the seller and the intervention agency for the sugar concerned.

Intervention agencies shall buy in at the intervention price or the derived intervention price, as the case
may be, valid for the area in which the sugar is located at the time of buying in. If the quality of the sugar
differs from the standard quality for which the intervention price was fixed, then this price shall be
increased or reduced accordingly.

It may be decided to grant premiums for sugar in one of the situations referred to in Article 23(2) of

2.
the Treaty which is rendered unfit for human consumption.

3.
It has been decided to grant production refunds on the products listed in Article 1(1)(a) and (f) and on
the syrups listed in Article 1(1)(d), and on chemically pure fructose (levulose) falling within CN Code
1702 50 00 as an intermediate product, where these fall within one of the situations referred to in Article
23(2) of the Treaty and are used to manufacture certain products of the chemical

industry.

The refund shall be fixed taking account in particular of the costs arising from the use of imported sugar
which the chemical

industry would have to bear in the event of supply on the world market.

Flat-rate Community aid shall be granted for the disposal, in the European regions of the Community,

4.
of sugar produced in the French overseas departments. This aid shall concern:

— the refining in refineries in the European regions of the Community of sugar produced in these

departments,

in particular in accordance with their yield;

— the transport of sugar produced in the French overseas departments to the European regions of the

Community and where appropriate,

its storage in these departments;

the flat-rate amounts for the transport costs from each department to the European regions of the
Community shall

include in particular:

— a flat-rate amount representing the transport costs ex-factory to FOB;

— a flat-rate amount representing the shipping costs from FOB to cif ship's hold European ports of the

Community and the insurance costs involved.

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If the supply of refineries so requires, raw sugar manufactured from beet harvested in the Community may
qualify for measures as referred to in the first subparagraph.

For the purposes of this Article, ‘refinery’ means a production unit whose sole activity consists in refining
either raw sugar or syrups produced prior to the crystallising stage.

Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to

5.
in Article 42(2), covering in particular:

— the minimum quality and quantity requirements for intervention,

— the price increases and reductions applicable on intervention,

— the procedures and requirements for taking over by the intervention agencies,

— the conditions for granting premiums and the amounts of such premiums,

— the conditions for granting production refunds and the amounts of such refunds,

— the possibility, if necessary, of limiting the granting of production refunds for levulose to an overall

quantity of that product, to be determined for the Community,

— the possibility of granting production refunds for the products referred to in Article 1(1)(h),

— the measures referred to in paragraph 4.

Article 8

Where Article 31 is applied to help ensure supplies to the Community or one of its regions, the
Commission shall adopt special intervention measures in accordance with the procedure referred to in
Article 42(2).

Such measures may not result in Community sugar manufacturers being obliged to sell sugar to interven-
tion agencies.

Article 9

1.

Intervention agencies may sell sugar only at a price which is higher than the intervention price.

It may, however, be decided that intervention agencies may sell sugar at a price equal to or lower than the
intervention price if the sugar is intended:

— for use as animal feed, or

— for export, either without further processing or after processing into the products listed in Annex I to

the Treaty or into the goods listed in Annex V to this Regulation.

However, notwithstanding paragraph 1, it may be decided that intervention agencies are to make
2.
unprocessed sugar held by them available,
the
Community, to charitable organisations — recognised by the Member State concerned or by the Commis-
sion in cases where a Member State has not recognised any such organisations — at a price which is lower
than the intervention price, or free of charge, for free distribution as part of individual emergency aid
operations.

for human consumption on the internal market of

Detailed rules for applying this Article and decisions to make sugar available under paragraph 2 shall

3.
be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

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CHAPTER 2

Quotas

Article 10

1.

Chapter 2 shall apply to the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years.

The basic quantities for the production of A and B sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup shall be those

2.
fixed in Article 11(2).

3.
The guarantees for the disposal of sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup produced under quota may be
reduced for one or more marketing years in order to comply with the Community's commitments under
the Agricultural Agreement concluded under Article 300(2) of the Treaty.

4.
For the purposes of applying paragraph 3, the guaranteed quantity under quotas shall be fixed before
1 October for each marketing year on the basis of forecasts relating to production, imports, consumption,
storage, carryovers, the exportable balance and the average loss likely to be borne by the self-financing
scheme within the meaning of Article 15(1)(d). If these forecasts show that the exportable balance for the
marketing year in question is greater than the maximum laid down in the Agreement, then the guaranteed
quantity shall be reduced by the difference in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
This difference shall be split between sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup according to the percentage
represented by the sum of each product's A and B quotas for the entire Community. It shall then be further
broken down by Member State and by product by applying the relevant coefficient as set out in the table
below:

1

2

3

Regions

Coefficient applicable to sugar expressed as
white sugar

Coefficient applicable to isoglucose in dry
matter

Coefficient applicable to insulin syrup as
sugar/isoglucose equivalent

A sugar

B sugar

A isoglucose

B isoglucose

A insulin syrup

B insulin syrup

BLEU (1)

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France (metropolitan) (2)

French overseas depts. (2)

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Portugal (mainland)

Portugal
region of the Azores)

(the

autonomous

United Kingdom

Austria

Sweden

Finland

0,046201

0,027206

0,224812

0,012352

0,026459

0,213231

0,019298

0,007752

0,082491

0,053393

0,002323

0,000387

0,044297

0,022673

0,014327

0,005683

0,009920

0,008015

0,069174

0,001235

0,001102

0,063239

0,002063

0,000775

0,015514

0,014083

0,000232

0,000039

0,004430

0,005292

0,001433

0,000568

0,225547

0,062024

0,556265

0,130955

—

0,104246

0,037978

0,166138

0,061081

—

—

0,059803

0,026804

0,029213

—

—

0,024551

0,008944

0,017721

0,015898

—

—

0,014083

0,006313

0,006880

—

0,084713

0,022596

—

—

—

—

0,023151

0,002316

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

0,058922

0,013847

—

—

—

—

—

—

0,194365

0,045646

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(1) Belgo-Luxembourg Economic union.
(2) Under the second subparagraph of Article 12(3)

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The Member State shall

then allocate the difference corresponding to it among the producer
5.
undertakings established in its territory on the basis of the ratio between their A and B quotas for the
product in question and the basic quantity A and the basic quantity B for the Member State for that
product.

Sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup produced in excess of the quantity guaranteed shall be treated as C
sugar, C isoglucose and C insulin syrup.

Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular for reducing the guaranteed quantity and, where
6.
applicable, adjusting that quantity with a view to fixing the guaranteed quantity for the following marketing
year, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 11

1.
Under the terms of this Chapter, the Member States shall allocate an A and B quota to each
undertaking producing sugar, each undertaking producing isoglucose and each undertaking producing
insulin syrup established in its territory and provided with an A and B quota during the 2000/2001
marketing year.

For the purposes of allocating the A and B quotas referred to in paragraph 1, the basic quantities shall

2.
be fixed as follows:

1. Basic quantities A

Regions

(a) Basic quantity A for

(b) Basic quantity A for

sugar (1)

isoglucose (2)

(c) Basic quantity A for
insulin syrup (3)

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France (metropolitan)

French overseas departments

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal (mainland)

The autonomous region of the Azores

Finland

Sweden

Belgium/Luxembourg Economic Union

325 000,0

2 612 913,3

288 638,0

957 082,4

2 506 487,4

463 872,0

181 145,2

1 310 903,9

684 112,4

314 028,9

63 380,2

9 048,2

132 806,3

334 784,2

674 905,5

United Kingdom

1 035 115,4

(1) In tonnes of white sugar.
(2) In tonnes of dry matter.
(3) In tonnes of dry matter white sugar/isoglucose equivalent.

—

28 643,3

10 435,0

74 619,6

15 747,1

—

—

16 432,1

7 364,6

—

8 027,0

—

10 792,0

—

56 150,6

21 502,0

—

—

—

—

19 847,1

—

—

—

65 519,4

—

—

—

—

—

174 218,6

—

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2. Basic quantities B

Regions

(a) Basic quantity B for

(b) Basic quantity B for

sugar (1)

isoglucose (2)

(c) Basic quantity B for
insulin syrup (3)

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

France overseas departments

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal (mainland)

The autonomous region of the Azores

Finland

Sweden

Belgium/Luxembourg Economic Union

United Kingdom

95 745,5

803 982,2

28 863,8

39 878,5

752 259,5

46 372,5

18 114,5

246 539,3

180 447,1

73 297,5

6 338,0

904,8

13 280,4

33 478,0

144 906,1

103 511,5

(1) In tonnes of white sugar.
(2) In tonnes of dry matter.
(3) In tonnes of dry matter white sugar/isoglucose equivalent.

—

6 745,5

2 457,5

7 959,4

4 098,6

—

—

3 869,8

1 734,5

—

1 890,3

—

1 079,7

—

15 441,0

5 735,3

—

—

—

—

4 674,2

—

—

—

15 430,5

—

—

—

—

—

41 028,2

—

3. Without prejudice to Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6) and Article 12, the A and B quotas of undertakings
producing sugar, undertakings producing isoglucose and undertakings producing insulin syrup shall be
those assigned by the Member States for the 2000/2001 marketing year before application of Article 26(5)
of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999, adjusted according to the basic quantities fixed in paragraph 2 in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 10(5).

Detailed rules for implementing this Article shall be adopted, as the need arises, in accordance with

4.
the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 12

1. Member States may transfer A and B quotas between undertakings in accordance with this Article and
taking into consideration the interests of each of the parties concerned, particularly sugar beet and cane
producers.

The first subparagraph shall not apply to insulin syrup.

2. Member States may reduce the A and B quotas of each sugar-producing undertaking or isoglucose-
producing undertaking established in their territories by no more than 10 % of the A quota or the B quota,
as the case may be, fixed for each undertaking under Article 11.

The 10 % limit referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply in Italy, Spain and the French overseas
departments in cases where quotas are transferred under restructuring plans in the beet, cane and sugar
sectors in the region concerned and to the extent necessary to permit such plans to be implemented.

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Restructuring plans and the ensuing measures affecting the A and B quotas shall be communicated to the
Commission without delay.

3.
The quantities of A quotas and B quotas thus withdrawn shall be allocated by the Member States to
one or more other undertakings, whether or not in possession of a quota, situated in the same region,
within the meaning of Article 11(2), as the undertakings from which those quantities were withdrawn.

Nevertheless, France may reduce the A quotas of undertakings established in its overseas departments, as
fixed under Article 11, by not more than 30 000 tonnes of white sugar and may reallocate the quantities
thus withdrawn to one or more other undertakings established in metropolitan France. The A quota of each
undertaking concerned may not be less after reduction than the average quantity of sugar it produced under
its quota as recorded in each of the 1977/1978, 1978/1979 and 1979/1980 marketing years.

Annex IV lays down detailed rules on adjusting quotas in the event of mergers and transfers of

4.
undertakings.

Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to

5.
in Article 42(2).

Article 13

C sugar not carried forward under Article 14, C isoglucose and C insulin syrup may not be disposed
1.
of on the Community's internal market and must be exported without further processing before 1 January
following the end of the marketing year concerned.

Articles 7, 27 and 33 shall not apply to C sugar, C isoglucose and C insulin syrup.

2.
Exceptionally, and to the extent necessary to guarantee the Community's sugar supplies, it may be
decided that Article 33 shall apply to C sugar. In that event, it shall be decided at the same time that the
entire quantity of C sugar concerned may be definitively disposed of on the internal market without the
amount provided for in paragraph 3 of this Article being levied.

Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to

3.
in Article 42(2).

These rules shall provide in particular for a charge to be levied on C sugar, C isoglucose and C insulin syrup
as referred to in paragraph 1 for which no proof has been supplied, by a date to be determined, that it has
been exported without further processing within the time laid down.

Article 14

Each undertaking may decide to carry forward all or part of the sugar it has produced in excess of its
1.
quota to the next marketing year to be treated as part of that year's production. That decision shall be
irrevocable.

Each undertaking may decide to carry forward all or part of its production of A sugar and B sugar which
has become C sugar after application of Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6) to the next marketing year to be
treated as part of that year's production. That decision shall also be irrevocable. Furthermore, it shall not be
subject to any limit that may be laid down under paragraph 4 of this Article.

2.

Undertakings which take the decision referred to in paragraph 1 shall:

— inform the Member State concerned, before 1 February, of the quantity or quantities of sugar being

carried forward, and

— undertake to store such quantity or quantities for a period of 12 consecutive months from a date to be

determined.

However, the date of 1 February referred to in the first indent of the first subparagraph shall be replaced:

(a) for undertakings established in Spain, by 15 April in the case of beet-sugar production and 20 June in

the case of cane-sugar production;

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(b) for undertakings established in the United Kingdom, by 15 February.

(c) for undertakings established in the French overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, by 1

May.

If an undertaking's definitive production in the marketing year concerned was less than the estimate made
when the decision to carry forward was taken, then the quantity carried forward may be adjusted
retroactively before 1 August of the following marketing year.

Should a natural disaster such as drought or flooding strike a Community region, it may be decided,
3.
in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2), to reduce the period of compulsory storage
referred to in the second indent of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 for a quantity of sugar sufficient to
ensure the normal supply of the affected region.

Detailed rules for applying this Article, which may restrict the quantities of sugar which may be

4.
carried forward, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

These rules shall provide, in particular, for a charge to be levied on any sugar from the quantity to be stored
under the second indent of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 which is disposed of during the
compulsory storage period.

Article 15

1.

Before the end of each marketing year, the following shall be recorded:

(a) a forecast of the production of A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose and A and B insulin syrup

attributable to the marketing year concerned;

(b) a forecast of the quantities of sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup disposed of for consumption within

the Community during the marketing year concerned;

(c) the exportable surplus obtained by subtracting the quantity referred to in (b) from the quantity referred

to in (a);

(d) an estimate of the average loss or revenue per tonne of sugar for export obligations to be fulfilled

during the current marketing year.

This average loss or revenue shall be equal to the difference between the total amount of refunds and
the total amount of levies on the total tonnage of export obligations in question;

(e) an estimate of overall loss or revenue, obtained by multiplying the surplus referred to in (c) by the

average loss or revenue referred to in (d).

2.
Before the end of the 2005/2006 marketing year and without prejudice to Article 10(3), (4), (5) and
(6), the following shall be recorded cumulatively for the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years:

(a) the exportable surplus established on the basis of the definitive production of A and B sugar, A and B
isoglucose and A and B insulin syrup and the definitive quantity of sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup
disposed of for consumption within the Community;

(b) the average loss or revenue per tonne of sugar resulting from the total export obligations concerned,
calculated using the method described in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1(d) above;

(c) the overall loss or revenue, obtained by multiplying the surplus referred to in (a) by the average loss or

revenue referred to in (b);

(d) the sum total of the basic production levies and the B levies charged.

The estimate of overall loss or revenue referred to in paragraph 1(e) shall be adjusted by the difference
between the amounts referred to in (c) and (d).

3. Without prejudice to Article 18(1), should the figures recorded under paragraph 1 and adjusted under
paragraph 2 result in a foreseeable overall loss, then that loss shall be divided by the estimated production
of A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose and A and B insulin syrup attributable to the current marketing year.
The resulting amount shall be charged to manufacturers as a basic production levy on their production of
A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose and A and B insulin syrup.

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However, this levy shall not exceed:

— for sugar, 2 % of the intervention price for white sugar,

— for insulin syrup, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalent by applying a coefficient of 1,9,

the

maximum amount payable on white sugar, and

— for isoglucose, the share of the basic production levy borne by sugar manufacturers.

4.
Should the maximum permitted basic production levy not fully cover the overall loss referred to in
the first subparagraph of paragraph 3, the balance not covered shall be divided by the estimated production
of B sugar, B isoglucose and B insulin syrup attributable to the marketing year in question. The resulting
amount shall be charged to manufacturers as a B levy on their production of B sugar, B isoglucose and B
insulin syrup.

However, subject to paragraph 5, this levy shall not exceed:

— for B sugar, 30 % of the intervention price for white sugar,

— for B insulin syrup, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalent by applying a coefficient of 1,9, the

maximum amount payable on B white sugar, and

— for B isoglucose, the share of the B levy borne by sugar manufacturers.

5. Where the figures recorded under paragraph 1 suggest that the foreseeable overall loss for the current
marketing year is unlikely to be covered by the expected proceeds from the levies because of the ceilings on
the basic production levy and the B levy fixed in paragraphs 3 and 4, then the maximum percentage
referred to in the first indent of paragraph 4 shall be adjusted to the extent necessary to cover the overall
loss, without exceeding 37,5 %.

The revised maximum percentage for the B levy shall be fixed for the current marketing year before 15
September. The minimum price for B beet referred to in Article 4(1)(b) shall be adjusted accordingly.

6.
account when calculating the overall

All the losses resulting from the grant of production refunds under Article 7(3) shall be taken into
loss referred to in paragraph 1(e).

7.

The levies referred to in this Article shall be collected by the Member States.

Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to

8.
in Article 42(2), and shall cover in particular:

— the amounts of the levies to be collected,

— the revised maximum percentage for the B levy,

— the adjusted minimum price for B beet corresponding to the revised maximum percentage for the B

levy.

Article 16

1. Where the overall loss recorded for a particular marketing year under Article 15(1) and (2) is not fully
covered by the proceeds from the production levies for that marketing year after application of Article
15(3), (4) and (5), an additional levy shall be charged to manufacturers, without prejudice to Article 4, to
cover the outstanding balance of the overall

loss.

The additional

levy shall be determined for each sugar-producing undertaking, each isoglucose-
2.
producing undertaking and each insulin syrup-producing undertaking by multiplying the total sum due
from the undertaking by way of production levies for the marketing year concerned by a coefficient to be
determined. That coefficient shall be the ratio for the entire Community, reduced by 1, between the overall
loss recorded under Article 15(1) and (2) for the marketing year concerned and the proceeds from the basic
production levies and B levies due from manufacturers of sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup, respectively,
for that marketing year.

The manufacturers concerned shall pay the additional

3.
marketing year for which it is due.

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levy thus charged to them from sellers of
Sugar manufacturers may recover part of the additional
Community-produced cane or beet, as the case may be. The amount thus recovered may not exceed the
maximum amount contributed by the beet and cane sellers towards the basic production levy and the B
levy, provided for in Article 15, for the marketing year in question multiplied by the coefficient referred to
in paragraph 2 of this Article.

The amount referred to in the second subparagraph shall be recovered on beet delivered during the
marketing year in question. However, the parties concerned may agree that the refund shall be recovered on
beet delivered during the following marketing year.

The proceeds from the additional levy referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be included for

4.
the purposes of the information recorded under Article 15(2).

Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular the coefficient referred to in paragraph 2, shall be

5.
adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 17

1. Manufacturers of insulin syrup may recover part of the basic production levies, B levies and additional
levies charged to them from the sellers of the agricultural raw material used to manufacture such insulin
syrup. The amount thus recovered may not exceed the amount borne by the beet growers for the marketing
year concerned; it shall be fixed by agreements within the trade or by contracts on the basis of the purchase
price of the agricultural raw material delivered for the manufacture of insulin syrup during the marketing
year in question.

Detailed rules for applying paragraph 1 shall be adopted as necessary,

2.
procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

in accordance with the

Article 18

If, after Articles 15 and 16 have been applied to the 2000/2001 marketing year, it is found that the

1.
actual overall

loss for that marketing year:

(a) is not fully covered by the proceeds of the production levy and, if applicable, the additional levy, the
resulting financial burden shall be added to the estimate of overall loss referred to in Article 15(1)(e) for
the marketing year concerned;

(b) is less than the proceeds of the production levies and, if applicable, the additional levy, the difference
shall be deducted from the estimate of overall loss or added to the estimate of overall revenue, as the
case may be, resulting from applying Articles 15 and 16 to the marketing year concerned.

2. When the basic production levy is lower than the maximum amount referred to in Article 15(3) or
when the B levy is lower than the maximum amount referred to in Article 14(4), adjusted, where necessary,
in accordance with Article 15(4), sugar manufacturers shall be required to pay the beet sellers 60 % of the
difference between the maximum amount of the levy concerned and the amount actually charged.

The amount to be paid per tonne of beet shall be fixed for the standard quality.

The price increases and reductions referred to in Article 5 shall apply to this amount.

Community sugar manufacturers may recover 60 % of the levy concerned from the sellers of cane

3.
produced in the Community on the quantity of sugar for which the levy was charged.

4. Member States shall ensure from the information provided by the sugar manufacturers that the
payment for the beet complies with the relevant Community rules.

Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to

5.
in Article 42(2).

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Article 19

In contracts for the delivery of beet for the manufacture of sugar, a distinction shall be made

1.
according to whether the quantities of sugar to be manufactured from the beet are:

(a) A sugar,

(b) B sugar,

(c) sugar other than A and B sugar.

Each sugar-manufacturing undertaking shall provide the Member State in which it produces sugar with the
following information:

— the quantities of beet referred to at (a) for which they have concluded pre-sowing contracts and the

sugar content on which those contracts are based, and

— the corresponding estimated yield.

The Member States may require additional

information.

2.
Notwithstanding Article 5(2)(b), sugar manufacturers who have not signed pre-sowing delivery
contracts for a quantity of beet equal to their A quota at the minimum price for A beet shall be required to
pay at least this minimum price for all the beet they process into sugar.

Agreements within the trade may derogate from paragraphs 1 and 2 provided the Member State

3.
concerned agrees.

4.

The general rules for applying this Article are set out in Annex III.

Detailed rules for applying this Article and, if necessary, the criteria to be applied by manufacturers
5.
when allocating among beet sellers the quantities of beet to be covered by pre-sowing contracts within the
meaning of paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 20

It may be decided that sugar or isoglucose used for the manufacture of certain products shall not be

1.
considered as production within the meaning of this Chapter.

Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular the exceptions referred to in paragraph 1, shall be

2.
adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 21

Sugar manufacturers may buy beet with which to manufacture C sugar or the sugar referred to in

1.
Article 20 at a price lower than the minimum prices for beet fixed in Article 4(1).

2.

For the quantity of beet purchased corresponding to the quantity of sugar:

— disposed of on the internal market under Article 13(3), or

— carried forward to the following marketing year under Article 14,

the sugar manufacturers concerned shall, where appropriate, adjust the purchase price so that it is at least
equal to the minimum price for A beet.

Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted as necessary in accordance with the procedure

3.
referred to in Article 42(2).

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TITLE II

TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES

CHAPTER 1

General rules

Article 22

Imports

1.
1(1)(a),(b),(c),(d),(f),(g) and (h) shall be subject to presentation of an import or export licence.

from the Community of any of

into and exports

the products

listed in Article

The Member States shall issue licences to all applicants, irrespective of where they are established in the
Community and without prejudice to measures taken to apply Articles 26 and 27, and Article 6(5) of
Regulation (EC) No 2820/98 (1).

Import and export licences shall be valid throughout the Community. Such licences shall be issued
provided a security is lodged to guarantee that the products are imported or exported during the term of
validity of the licence; except in cases of force majeure, the security shall be forfeit in whole or in part if
import or export is not carried out, or is carried out only partially, within that period.

2.

In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2):

(a) the arrangements provided for in paragraph 1 may be extended to cover the products listed in Article

1(1)(e);

(b) detailed rules shall be adopted for applying this Article, including in particular the term of validity of

licences and,

if necessary, a time limit for the issue of licences.

Article 23

Unless this Regulation provides otherwise, the rates of duty in the common customs tariff shall apply

1.
to the products listed in Article 1.

2.
Notwithstanding paragraph 1, to ensure that the Community market is adequately supplied with raw
sugar for refining falling within CN codes 1701 11 10 and 1701 12 10 molasses falling within CN code
1703 by means of imports from third countries, the Commission may suspend in whole or in part the
application of import duties on these products and lay down the detailed rules for any such suspension in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 42(2).

Suspension may apply during periods when the price on the world market plus the import duty in the
common customs tariff:

— is higher than the intervention price for the product,

in the case of raw sugar,

— in the case of molasses, is higher than the price of molasses used to calculate revenue from sales of
molasses by sugar manufacturers for the purposes of fixing the basic price for beet for the marketing
year concerned.

Article 24

1.
In order to prevent or counteract any adverse effects on the Community market caused by imports of
certain agricultural products, imports of one or more of such products at the rate of duty laid down in the
common customs tariff shall be subject to payment of an additional import duty if the conditions in Article
5 of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded under Article 300 of the Treaty in the framework of the
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations are met, unless such imports are unlikely to disturb the
Community market, or where the effects would be disproportionate to the intended objective.

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The trigger prices below which an additional duty may be imposed shall be those forwarded by the

2.
Community to the World Trade Organisation.

The trigger volumes which must be exceeded in order for an additional import duty to be imposed shall be
determined in particular on the basis of imports into the Community during the three years preceding the
year in which the adverse effects referred to in paragraph 1 arise or are likely to arise.

The import prices to be taken into consideration for imposing an additional import duty shall be

3.
determined on the basis of the cif import prices of the consignment concerned.

The cif import prices shall be checked for this purpose against the representative prices for the product in
question on the world market or on the Community import market for the product.

The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for applying this Article in accordance with the procedure

4.
referred to in Article 42(2). Such detailed rules shall specify in particular:

(a) the products to which additional import duties may be applied under the terms of Article 5 of the

Agreement on Agriculture;

(b) the other trigger criteria necessary to ensure that paragraph 1 is correctly applied in accordance with

Article 5 of that Agreement.

Article 25

For molasses:

— the world market price referred to in Article 23(2), and

and

— the representative price referred to in Article 24(3),

shall apply to a standard quality.

The standard quality may be laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 26

1.
Tariff quotas for the products listed in Article 1 resulting from agreements concluded in the
framework of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations shall be opened and administered under
detailed rules adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

2.

Quotas shall be administered by one or more of the following methods:

— a method based on the chronological order in which applications are lodged (‘first come, first served’),

— a method of distribution in proportion to the quantities requested when the applications are lodged (the

‘simultaneous examination’ method),

— a method whereby traditional trade patterns are taken into account (the ‘traditional/new arrivals’

method).

Other appropriate methods may be adopted.

They must avoid any discrimination between the importers concerned.

3. Whichever administration method is adopted shall give due weight to the Community's supply
requirements and the need to safeguard market equilibrium, but may also draw on methods used to
administer quotas in the past such as those referred to in paragraph 1, without prejudice to the rights
arising from agreements concluded in the framework of the Uruguay Round negotiations.

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The detailed rules referred to in paragraph 1 shall provide for annual quotas, if necessary suitably
4.
staggered over the year, shall specify the administrative method to be used and, where appropriate, shall
include:

(a) guarantees covering the nature, provenance and origin of the product,

(b) recognition of the document used for verifying the guarantees referred to in (a), and

(c) the conditions under which import licences are issued and their term of validity.

Article 27

To the extent necessary to enable the products listed in Article 1(1)(a),(c) and (d) to be exported
1.
without further processing or in the form of goods listed in Annex V, on the basis of world market
quotations or prices in the case of products listed in Article 1(1)(a), (c) and (d), and within the limits
resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 300 of the Treaty, the difference between
such quotations or prices and prices in the Community may be covered by export refunds.

The export refund for raw sugar may not exceed that granted for white sugar.

Provision may be made for export refunds to be granted on the products listed in Article 1(1)(f), (g)

2.
and (h) and exported without further processing or in the form of goods listed in Annex V.

The amount of the refund per 100 kg of dry matter shall be fixed taking particular account of:

(a) the refund applicable to exports of products falling within CN code 1702 30 91,

(b) the refund applicable to exports of the products listed in Article 1(1)(d),

(c) the economic aspects of the planned exports.

Refunds on the products listed in Article 1 exported in the form of goods listed in Annex V may not

3.
be higher than those applicable to the same products exported without further processing.

The method adopted for allocating the quantities which may be exported with a refund shall be the

4.
one which:

(a) is most suited to the type of product and market situation concerned, allowing the most efficient
possible use of the resources available in view of the efficiency and structure of Community exports but
without discriminating between large and small exporters;

(b) is least cumbersome administratively for exporters without neglecting administrative requirements;

(c) does not discriminate between exporters.

Refunds shall be the same for the whole Community. They may vary according to destination, where

5.
the world market situation or the specific requirements of certain markets make this necessary.

Refunds shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2). Refunds may be fixed:

(a) at regular intervals;

(b) by tendering procedure for products for which that procedure has been used in the past.

Refunds fixed at regular intervals may, where necessary, be adjusted in the intervening period by the
Commission at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative.

Tenders submitted in response to an invitation shall not be considered unless a security is lodged. Except in
cases of force majeure, the securities shall be forfeit in whole or in part if tenderers have not fulfilled, or
have only partially fulfilled, their obligations under the tendering procedure.

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In the case of undenatured products listed in Article 1(1)(a),(c) and (d) exported without further processing,
Articles 28, 29 and 30 shall also apply.

6. When fixing the amount of the refund, account shall be taken in particular of the need to strike a
balance between the use of Community basic products for export as processed goods to third countries and
the use of products from these countries admitted for inward processing.

Refunds shall be granted on the products referred to in paragraph 1 exported without further

7.
processing only on application and on presentation of the relevant export licence.

8.
The refund applicable to exports of products listed in Article 1 exported without further processing
shall be that applicable on the day the licence application is lodged and, in the case of a differentiated
refund, that applicable on the same day:

(a) for the destination indicated on the licence,

or

(b) for the actual destination, if it differs from the destination indicated on the licence. In that case the
amount applicable may not exceed the amount applicable to the destination indicated on the licence.

Appropriate measures may be taken to prevent abuse of the flexibility provided for in this paragraph.

9.
Paragraphs 7 and 8 may be extended to cover products listed in Article 1 and exported in the form of
goods listed in Annex V in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No
3448/93.

10.
paid under food-aid operations,

Paragraphs 7 and 8 may be waived in the case of products listed in Article 1 on which refunds are

in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

11.

The refund shall be paid upon proof that:

— the products have been exported from the Community,

and

— in the case of a differentiated refund, the products have reached the destination indicated on the licence
or another destination for which a refund has been fixed, without prejudice to point (b) in the first
subparagraph of paragraph 8. Exceptions may be made to this rule in accordance with the procedure
referred to in Article 42(2), provided conditions are laid down which offer equivalent guarantees.

Additional rules may be laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

No refund shall be granted on undenatured products as referred to in Article 1(1)(a) exported

12.
without further processing unless, as the case may be, they have been:

(a) obtained from sugar beet or sugar cane harvested within the Community,

(b) imported into the Community under Article 35,

(c) obtained from one of the products imported under Article 35.

13.
No refund shall be granted on undenatured products as referred to in Article 1(c) and (d) exported
without further processing which are not of Community origin or which have not been obtained from
sugar imported into the Community under paragraph 12(b) or from the products referred to in paragraph
12(c).

14.
Compliance with the restrictions on volume resulting from agreements concluded under Article 300
of the Treaty shall be ensured by means of export licences issued for the reference periods provided for in
such agreements and applying to the products concerned.

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The detailed rules for applying this Article, including the arrangements for redistributing unallocated
15.
or unused exportable quantities and for amending Annex V, shall be adopted in accordance with the
procedure referred to in Article 42(2). However, the detailed rules for applying paragraph 6 in the case of
products as referred to in Article 1 exported in the form of goods listed in Annex V shall be adopted in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 3448/93.

Article 28

This Article shall apply to the fixing of refunds on undenatured products as referred to in Article

1.
1(1)(a) exported without further processing.

2. Where refunds for products as referred to in Article 1(1)(a) are fixed at regular intervals:

(a) the refunds shall be fixed every two weeks.

However, such fixing may be discontinued in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2)
if it is found that no surplus sugar is available in the Community for export at world market prices. In
that event, no refund shall be granted;

(b) when fixing the refund, account shall be taken of the situation on the Community and world markets in

sugar, and in particular the following:

— the intervention price for white sugar for the Community area with the largest surplus or the
intervention price for raw sugar for the Community area which is considered to be representative
for the exportation of such sugar,

— the costs of transporting sugar from the areas referred to in the first indent to ports or other points

of export in the Community,

— trade expenses and any transhipment, transport and packaging charges incurred in marketing sugar

on the world market,

— quotations or prices recorded for sugar on the world market,

— the economic aspect of the proposed exports and

— limits resulting from agreements concluded under Article 300 of the Treaty.

3. Where the refund for the products referred to in Article 1(1)(a) is fixed by tendering procedure:

(a) the purpose of the tender shall be to determine the amount of the refund;

(b) the competent authorities of the Member States shall invite tenders in accordance with an instrument
legally binding in all Member States. This instrument shall
lay down the terms of the tendering
procedure, which must guarantee equal access for all persons established within the Community;

(c) the terms of the tendering procedure shall include a time limit for the submission of tenders. Within
three working days following the expiry of the time limit, the maximum amount of the refund to which
the tendering procedure relates shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article
42(2) in the light of the tenders received. When calculating the maximum amount, account shall be
taken of the supply situation and prices within the Community, prices and potential outlets on the
world market and the costs incurred in exporting sugar.

A maximum tonnage may be fixed in accordance with the same procedure;

(d) where exports can be effected with a refund which is lower than that which would result from taking
account of the difference between prices within the Community and prices on the world market and
where exports are for a specific destination, the competent authorities of the Member States may be
required to issue a special

invitation to tender stipulating:

— that tenders may be submitted at any time until the tendering procedure is terminated, and

— a maximum amount of the refund, calculated in the light of requirements for the exports in

question;

(e) if the amount of the refund offered in a tender:

— exceeds the maximum fixed, the competent authorities of the Member States shall reject that tender,

— does not exceed the maximum, those authorities shall fix the refund at an amount equal to the

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In the case of raw sugar:

(a) the refund shall be fixed for the standard quality defined in Annex I;

(b) refunds fixed at regular intervals under paragraph 2(a):

— may not exceed 92 % of the refund for white sugar for the same period. However, this limit shall

not apply to refunds to be fixed for candy sugar,

— shall be multiplied, for each exporting operation concerned, by a conversion factor obtained by
dividing the yield of the raw sugar exported, calculated in accordance with Annex I, by 92;

(c) the maximum amount as provided for in paragraph 3(c) fixed under a tendering procedure may not
exceed 92 % of the maximum amount fixed at the same time for white sugar under that paragraph.

Article 29

The refund on undenatured products as listed in Article 1(1)(c) exported without further processing

1.
shall be fixed each month taking account of:

(a) the price of molasses used to calculate revenue from sales of molasses by sugar manufacturers for the

purpose of fixing the basic price for beet for the marketing year concerned;

(b) prices and potential outlets for molasses on the Community market;

(c) quotations or prices recorded for molasses on the world market, and

(d) the economic aspect of the proposed exports.

However, fixing at regular intervals may be discontinued in accordance with the procedure referred to in
Article 42(2) if it is found that no surplus molasses is available within the Community for export at world
market prices. In this event, no refund shall be granted.

2.
In special circumstances the amount of the refund may be fixed by tendering procedure for specific
quantities and specific areas of the Community. The purpose of the tendering procedure shall be to
determine the amount of the refund.

The competent authorities of the Member States concerned shall organise a tendering procedure under an
authorisation laying down the rules to be followed, which must guarantee equal access for all persons
established within the Community.

Article 30

1.
The basic amount of the refund shall be fixed each month for undenatured products as listed in
Article 1(1)(d) exported without further processing. However, fixing at regular intervals may be discon-
tinued in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2) if the regular fixing of the refund on
white sugar without further processing is suspended. In this event, no refund shall be granted.

The basic amount of the refund on the products referred to in paragraph 1, with the exception of

2.
sorbose, shall be equal to one-hundredth of an amount obtained by taking account of:

(a) the difference between the intervention price for white sugar for the Community area with the largest
surplus for the month for which the basic amount is fixed, and the quotations or prices for white sugar
recorded on the world market;

(b) the need to strike a balance between:

— the use of Community basic products in the manufacture of processed goods for export to third

countries, and

— the use of third-country products brought in under inward-processing arrangements.

In the case of sorbose, the basic amount of the refund shall be equal to the basic amount of the

3.
refund less one-hundredth of the production refund in force.

Application of the basic amount of the refund may be restricted to specific products listed in Article

4.
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Article 31

To the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common organisation of the markets in the sugar
sector, the Commission may fully or partially prohibit the use of inward-processing arrangements for the
products listed in Article 1(1) in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 32

The general rules for interpreting the combined nomenclature and the special rules for its application
1.
shall apply to the tariff classification of products covered by this Regulation; the tariff nomenclature
resulting from applying this Regulation shall be included in the common customs tariff.

Save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation or by a rule adopted pursuant thereto, the following

2.
shall be prohibited in trade with third countries:

(a) the levying of any charge having equivalent effect to a customs duty;

(b) the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect.

Article 33

1. Where the price of sugar on the world market is higher than the intervention price, an export levy
may be applied to the sugar concerned. Such a levy shall be compulsory when the cif price of white or raw
sugar is higher than the intervention price plus 10 %.

The export levy may be determined by tendering procedure. Otherwise, the levy to be charged shall be that
applicable on the day of export.

2. Where the cif price of white or raw sugar is higher than the intervention price plus 10 %, the Council
may decide, acting on a proposal from the Commission in accordance with the voting procedure laid down
in Article 37(2) of the Treaty, to grant an import subsidy for the product in question.

Where it is established that supplies available within the Community are not sufficient to:

(a) meet requirements within the Community

or

(b) meet the requirements of a major consumption region in the Community,

then the Council shall decide, acting on a proposal from the Commission in accordance with the voting
procedure laid down in Article 37(2) of the Treaty, to grant the import subsidy and lay down rules for
implementing it. Those rules shall determine in particular the quantity of white or raw sugar to be covered
by the subsidy, the duration of the subsidy and, where appropriate, the importing regions.

3.

The following shall be laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2):

(a) the cif prices referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2,

(b) export levies fixed by tendering procedure,

(c) the other detailed rules for applying this Article.

In the case of the products referred to in Article 1(1)(b),(c),(d),(f),(g) and (h), provisions similar to those in
paragraphs 1 and 2 may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

The amounts, other than those referred to in paragraph 3, resulting from the application of this

4.
Article shall be fixed by the Commission.

Article 34

1.
If imports or exports create or threaten to create a serious disturbance on the Community market in
one or more of the products listed in Article 1 which is likely to jeopardise the achievement of the
objectives set out in Article 33 of the Treaty, appropriate measures may be applied in trade with third
countries until such disturbance or threat of disturbance has ceased.

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The Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 37(2) of the Treaty, shall adopt
the general rules for implementing this paragraph and shall define the cases and limits within which the
Member States may take protective measures.

2.
Should the situation referred to in paragraph 1 arise, the Commission shall decide upon the necessary
measures, either at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative; the Member States shall be
notified of the measures, which shall be immediately applicable. The Commission shall take a decision on
any request from a Member State within three working days of receiving it.

3. Measures decided upon by the Commission may be referred to the Council by any Member State
within three working days of the day on which they were notified. The Council shall meet without delay.
Acting by a qualified majority,

it may amend or repeal the measures in question.

This Article shall be applied in compliance with the Community's obligations resulting from agree-

4.
ments concluded under Article 300(2) of the Treaty.

CHAPTER 2

Preferential import arrangements

Article 35

Articles 36, 37 and 38 shall apply to cane sugar, hereinafter called ‘preferential sugar’, falling within CN
code 1701, originating in the States listed in Annex VI and imported into the Community under:

(a) Protocol 3 to Annex IV to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement;

(b) the Agreement on sugar cane between the European Community and the Republic of India.

Article 36

Where the quality of preferential sugar imported under Article 35 and purchased by intervention agencies
or other agents appointed by the Community deviates from the standard quality, the guaranteed prices shall
be adjusted by means of price increases and reductions.

Article 37

1.

2.

No import duty shall apply to imports of preferential sugar under Article 35.

Preferential sugar shall enjoy no derogations from the prohibitions referred to in Article 32(2).

Article 38

For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, adjustment aid shall be granted as an intervention
1.
measure to the industry refining preferential raw cane sugar imported into the Community for that purpose
under Article 35.

2.
The aid referred to in paragraph 1 may be granted only for quantities eligible under Article 35, which
are refined into white sugar at refineries as referred to in Article 7(4). The aid for producing the white sugar
concerned shall be EUR 0,10 per 100 kilograms, expressed in white sugar.

3.
During the period specified in paragraph 1, additional basic aid of EUR 0,10 per 100 kilograms,
expressed as white sugar, shall be granted to enable refineries as referred to in Article 7(4) to refine raw
cane sugar produced in the French overseas departments, with a view to restoring the price balance
between that sugar and preferential sugar.

The adjustment aid and the additional aid may be adjusted to take account of economic trends in the

4.
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Under the second subparagraph of Article 7(4) and on terms to be determined, the aid scheme
5.
provided for in paragraphs 1 to 3 of this Article may be extended to raw sugar produced from beet
harvested in the Community and refined in refineries as referred to in Article 7.

Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular the adjustments referred to in paragraph 4, shall

6.
be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 39

1.
During the period referred to in Article 38(1), in order to ensure adequate supplies to Community
refineries as referred to in Article 7(4), a reduced rate of duty, hereinafter called ‘special duty’, shall be levied
on imports of raw cane sugar, hereinafter called ‘special preferential sugar’, originating in the States referred
to in Article 35 and other States with whom agreements have been concluded, and subject to the
conditions laid down therein,

in particular the minimum purchase price to be paid by refiners.

For the purposes of paragraph 1 and without prejudice to paragraph 5, the presumed maximum

2.
supply needs per marketing year, expressed in white sugar, of the refining industries in:

(a) Finland

(b) metropolitan France,

(c) mainland Portugal,

(d) the United Kingdom

shall be 59 925 tonnes,

shall be 296 627 tonnes,

shall be 291 633 tonnes,

shall be 1 128 581 tonnes.

3. Without prejudice to paragraph 5, the quantities of raw cane sugar and raw beet sugar harvested in
the Community available to the refining industry, with or without distinction of origin, shall be determined
on the basis of an exhaustive Community forecast supply balance for raw sugar for each marketing year or
part of a marketing year. This balance may be revised during the marketing year.

For the purposes of determining these quantities, the quantities of sugar from the French overseas
departments and preferential sugar intended for direct consumption to be included in each balance shall be
those determined for the 1994/1995 marketing year, less forecast local consumption in the French overseas
departments during the marketing year concerned. If the balance shows that the amounts available will be
insufficient to meet the maximum needs laid down in paragraph 2, the necessary measures shall be laid
down to enable the Member States concerned to import the shortfall as special preferential sugar under the
arrangements for imports at a special rate of duty provided for in the agreements referred to in paragraph
1.

4.
Except in cases of force majeure, where the presumed maximum needs for a Member State as laid down
in paragraph 2 or after revision under paragraph 5 are exceeded, an amount corresponding to the full rate
of duty in force for the marketing year concerned shall be charged on a quantity equivalent to the excess,
increased by the aid referred to in Article 38 and, where appropriate, by the highest additional rate of duty
recorded during that marketing year.

However, in the case of preferential raw sugar and where a review has been carried out under paragraph 5,
the quantities in excess of the revised presumed maximum needs, within the limit of the quantities laid
down in paragraph 2, may be sold to intervention agencies on the terms stipulated in Article 36 if they
cannot be marketed in the Community.

5. Where Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6) apply, the sum of the presumed maximum needs referred to in
paragraph 2 of this Article shall be reduced for the marketing year concerned by a quantity equal to the
sum of the special preferential sugars needed to cover the presumed maximum needs determined under
paragraph 3 of this Article, and reduced by the same percentage reduction as was applied to the sum of the
basic quantities A for Community sugar under Article 10(5).

This reduction in the maximum needs shall be apportioned between the Member States concerned to reflect
the ratio between the quantity fixed for each in paragraph 2 and the sum of the quantities fixed in that
paragraph.

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Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular for implementing and administering the agree-
6.
ments referred to in paragraph 1, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article
42(2).

TITLE III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 40

Any measures needed to prevent the market in sugar being disturbed by changes in price levels at the
changeover from one marketing year to the next or during a single marketing year may be adopted in
accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 41

Member States and the Commission shall communicate to each other the information necessary for
implementing this Regulation.

Rules for the communication and dissemination of such information shall be adopted in accordance with
the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

Article 42

The Commission shall be assisted by a Management Committee for Sugar (hereinafter referred to as

1.
‘the Committee’).

2. Where reference is made to this Article, Articles 4 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply. The
period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.

3.

The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

The Committee may consider any other question referred to it by its chair on his or her own initiative or at
the request of the representative of a Member State.

Article 43

Goods listed in Article 1(1) which are manufactured or obtained from products not covered by Article
23(2) and Article 24 of the Treaty shall not be admitted to free circulation within the Community.

Article 44

Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall apply to the
production of and trade in the products listed in Article 1(1).

Article 45

Article 46

1.
Italy shall be authorised to grant adjustment aid, which may not exceed EUR 5,43 per 100
kilogrammes of white sugar to sugar beet producers and, where appropriate, to sugar producers for the
production of the corresponding quantity of sugar effected within the A and B quotas of each sugar-
producing undertaking, in the following regions: Abruzzi, Molise, Apulia, Sardinia, Campania, Basilicata,
Calabria and Sicily.

2.
However, where this is necessitated by exceptional requirements connected with the sugar industry
restructuring plans under way in these regions, Italy may, according to the marketing year in question,
adjust the aid referred to in paragraph 1. In the application of Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty, the
Commission shall in particular determine whether such aid is in conformity with the restructuring plans.

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Spain shall be authorised to grant adjustment aid, which may not exceed EUR 7,25 per 100
3.
kilogrammes of white sugar to sugar cane producers located in its territory for the production of the
corresponding quantity of sugar effected within the A and B quotas of each undertaking producing sugar
from cane.

Portugal shall be authorised to grant adjustment aid, which may exceed EUR 3,11 per 100 kilo-
4.
grammes of white sugar to sugar beet producers located in its mainland territory for the production of the
corresponding quantity of sugar effected within the A and B quotas of each sugar-producing undertaking.

Finland shall be authorised to grant a flat-rate reimbursement of storage costs for C sugar carried over
5.
in accordance with Article 14. The detailed rules for implementing this paragraph shall be adopted in
accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

The Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission the measures taken for each marketing

6.
year pursuant to paragraphs 1 to 5.

7.

This Article shall apply for the marketing years 2001/2002 to 2005/2006.

Article 47

1. Where agricultural activity within the scope of this Regulation is concerned, Member States shall
adopt the environmental measures they consider to be appropriate in view of the situation of the
agricultural
land used and which reflect the potential environmental effects of those activities. Such
measures shall be laid down in accordance with environmental requirements taking account of the
topographical and soil and climate conditions in the areas in question, the management of irrigation water
and rotation systems and cultivation methods likely to improve the environment. If necessary, Member
States shall, while respecting Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty, support agricultural producers in the
sugar sector by means of research programmes intended to develop more environment-friendly cultivation
methods, and by means of the publication of the results of such research programmes.

2. Member States shall lay down suitable penalties proportionate to the gravity of the environmental
consequences of failure to comply with the environmental requirements referred to in paragraph 1.

3. Member States shall submit to the Commission, by 30 June 2002, a report on the environmental
situation of agricultural production in the sugar sector and the impact of national measures adopted under
paragraphs 1 and 2.

TITLE IV

TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 48

The balance remaining from the compensation system for storage costs applied during the 2000/2001
marketing year under Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 shall be charged, if negative, or credited, if positive,
under the system referred to in Articles 15 and 16 of this Regulation for the 2001/2002 marketing year.

In the case of sugar in storage at 30 June 2001 under the compensation system for storage costs provided
for in Regulation (EC) No 2038/99, the date of disposal for the purposes of collecting the storage levy shall
be 30 June 2001.

Article 49

Regulations (EC) No 2038/1999, (EEC) No 206/68, (EEC) No 431/68, (EEC) No 447/68, (EEC) No 2049/69,
(EEC) No 793/72, (EEC) No 741/75, (EEC) No 1358/77, (EEC) No 1789/81, (EEC) No 193/82, (EEC) No
1010/86 and (EEC) No 2225/86 are hereby repealed.

References to Regulations (EC) No 2038/1999, (EEC) No 206/68, (EEC) No 431/68, (EEC) No 793/72,
(EEC) No 741/75 and (EEC) No 193/82 shall be understood as references to this Regulation and are to be
read in conjunction with the correlation table in Annex VII.

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Article 50

1.
The Commission may adopt any transitional measures required to ensure a smooth changeover from
the arrangements in force for the 2000/2001 marketing year to those introduced by this Regulation in
accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2). Such measures may derogate from this
Regulation.

2.
On the basis of Commission studies on the market situation, all aspects of the quota system, prices,
relations within the trade and an analysis of the increase in competition resulting from the European
Union's international commitments, the Commission shall submit a report at the beginning of 2003,
together with any appropriate proposals.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

It shall apply from the 2001/2002 marketing year.

Article 51

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Luxembourg, 19 June 2001.

For the Council

The President

M. WINBERG

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ANNEX I

Point I

STANDARD QUALITY FOR WHITE SUGAR

1. White sugar of the standard quality shall have the following characteristics:

(a) be of sound, genuine and merchantable quality; dry,

in homogeneous granulated crystals, free-flowing,

(b) minimum polarisation 99,7°,

(c) maximum moisture content 0,06 %,

(d) maximum invert sugar content: 0,04 %,

(e) the number of points determined under paragraph 2 shall not exceed a total of 22, nor:

— 15 for the ash content,
— 9 for the colour type, determined using the method of the Brunswick Institute of Agricultural Technology,

hereinafter called the ‘Brunswick method’,

— 6 for the colouring of the solution, determined using the method of the International Commission for Uniform

Methods of Sugar Analysis, hereinafter called the ‘ICUMSA method’.

2. One point shall correspond to:

(a) 0,0018 % of ash content determined using the ICUMSA method at 28° Brix,

(b) 0,5 units of colour type determined using the Brunswick method,

(c) 7,5 units of colouring of the solution determined using the ICUMSA method.

3. The methods for determining the factors referred to in paragraph 1 shall be those used for determining those factors

under the intervention measures.

Point II

STANDARD QUALITY FOR RAW SUGAR

1. Raw sugar of the standard quality shall be sugar with a yield of 92 %.

2. The yield of raw beet sugar shall be calculated by subtracting from the degree of polarisation of that sugar:

(a) its percentage ash content multiplied by four,

(b) its percentage invert sugar content multiplied by two,

(c) the number 1.

3. The yield of raw cane sugar shall be calculated by subtracting 100 from the degree of polarisation of that sugar

multiplied by two.

ANNEX II

STANDARD QUALITY FOR SUGAR BEET

Standard quality beet shall:

(a) be of sound and fair merchantable quality;

(b) have a sugar content of 16 % at the reception point.

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ANNEX III

PURCHASE TERMS FOR BEET

Point I

For the purposes of this Annex:

1. Contracting Parties means:

(a) sugar manufacturers, hereinafter called ‘manufacturers’,

(b) beet sellers, hereinafter called ‘sellers’;

2. contract means a contract concluded between a seller and a manufacturer for the delivery of beet for the manufacture

of sugar;

3. agreement within the trade means:

(a) an agreement concluded at Community level, prior to the conclusion of any contract, between a group of national
manufacturers' organisations on the one hand and a group of national sellers' organisations on the other;

(b) an agreement concluded, prior to the conclusion of any contract, between manufacturers or a manufacturers'
organisation recognised by the Member State concerned on the one hand and a sellers' association recognised by
the Member State concerned on the other;

(c) the law on companies and the law on cooperatives, in so far as they govern the delivery of sugar beet by the share

holders or members of a company or cooperative manufacturing sugar;

(d) in the absence of any agreement as referred to in (a) or (b), the arrangements existing before the conclusion of any
contract between manufacturers and sellers, provided the sellers accepting the arrangement supply at least 60 % of
the total beet bought by the manufacturer for the manufacture of sugar in one or more factories.

1. Contracts shall be made in writing for a specified quantity of beet.

Point II

2. Contracts shall specify whether an additional quantity of beet may be supplied, and under what terms.

1. This Point shall apply only where Article 19 of this Regulation applies.

Point III

2. Contracts shall indicate the purchase prices for the quantities of beet referred to in the first part of Article 19(1) of this
Regulation. In the case of the quantities referred to at (a) and (b) of Article 19(1), those prices may not be lower than
the minimum price for beet referred to in Article 4 of this Regulation applicable in the production area concerned.

3. Contracts shall lay down a fixed sugar content for beet. They shall include a conversion scale showing the different
sugar contents and factors for converting the quantities of beet supplied into quantities corresponding to the sugar
content shown in the contract.

The scale shall be based on the yields corresponding to the different sugar contents.

4. Where a seller has signed a contract with a manufacturer for the delivery of beet as referred to in the first part of
Article 19(1) of this Regulation and in (a) thereof, all deliveries by that seller, converted under paragraph 3 above,
shall be considered to be deliveries within the meaning of the first part of the abovementioned Article 19(1) and (a)
thereof up to the quantity of beet specified in the contract.

5. Manufacturers producing a quantity of sugar lower than their basic quota from beet for which they have signed
pre-sowing delivery contracts under the first part of Article 19(1) and (a) thereof shall distribute the quantity of beet
corresponding to any additional production up to the amount of their basic quota among the sellers with whom they
have signed pre-sowing delivery contracts within the meaning of the first part of the abovementioned Article 19(1)
and (a) and (b) thereof.

Agreements within the trade may derogate from this provision.

6.

In no case may a manufacturer require a seller to reimburse the production levy for beet delivered by the seller under
a contract concluded under the first part of Article 19(1) of this Regulation and (a) thereof.

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Point IV

1. Contracts shall contain provisions concerning the staggering and normal duration of beet deliveries.

2. Such provisions shall be those applicable during the 2000/2001 marketing year, taking account of the level of actual

production; agreements within the trade may derogate therefrom.

1. Contracts shall provide for beet collection centres.

Point V

2. Where sellers and manufacturers have already signed a contract for the 2000/2001 marketing year, the collection
centres agreed upon by them for deliveries during that marketing year shall remain in operation; agreements within
the trade may derogate from this provision.

3. Contracts shall provide that transport costs from the collection centres are to be borne by the manufacturer subject to

special agreements based on local rules or usages in operation before the 2001/2002 marketing year.

4. However, in Denmark, Spain, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom, where beet is delivered
free-at-factory, contracts shall require manufacturers to contribute to transport costs and shall stipulate the percentage
or amounts.

1. Contracts shall provide for reception points for beet.

Point VI

2. Where sellers and manufacturers have already signed a contract for the 2000/2001 marketing year, the reception
points agreed upon by them for deliveries during that marketing year shall remain in operation; agreements within the
trade may derogate from this provision.

Point VII

1. Contracts shall provide for the sugar content to be determined using the polarimetric method. A sample of the beet

shall be drawn at the time of reception.

2. Agreements within the trade may provide for samples to be drawn at another stage.

In such cases, the contract shall provide for a correction to compensate for any drop in the sugar content between the
reception and the drawing of the sample.

Point VIII

Contracts shall provide for gross weight, tare and sugar content to be determined using one of the following procedures:

(a) jointly, by the manufacturer and the beet producers' trade organisation, if an agreement within the trade so provides;

(b) by the manufacturer, under the supervision of the beet producers' trade organisation;

(c) by the manufacturer, under the supervision of an expert recognised by the Member State concerned, provided the

seller defrays the costs thereof;

(d) by the manufacturer,

if local rules or usages in force before the 2000/2001 marketing year so provide.

1. Contracts shall provide for an additional price to be paid to the seller where:

Point IX

(a) there is an increase in the price for beet at the changeover from one marketing year to the next, and

(b) the increase in the intervention price for sugar resulting from the increase in the price for beet is not made subject

to a levy for stocks held at the time of the changeover.

The additional price shall be calculated per 100 kilograms of white sugar by multiplying the increase referred to in the
first subparagraph under (b) by a coefficient equal to the ratio of
— the quantities of sugar produced within the A and B quota not carried forward under Article 14 of this Regulation

in stock at the time of transition
and

— the quantities of sugar produced by manufacturer during the previous marketing year within their maximum

quota not carried forward under Article 14 of this Regulation.

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2. Agreements within the trade may derogate from paragraph 1.

Contracts shall mention the possibility of such derogation.

Point X

1. Contracts shall require manufacturers to do one or more of the following for the whole quantity of beet delivered;
impose more than one such

when parts of that quantity are subject to different treatment, the contract shall
obligation:

(a) to return the fresh pulp from the tonnage of beet delivered free of charge to the seller, ex factory;

(b) to return part of that pulp dried or dried and molassed, free of charge to the seller, ex factory;

(c) to return the pulp, dried, to the seller, ex factory; in this case, the manufacturer may require the seller to pay the

drying costs;

(d) to pay the seller compensation which takes account of the possibilities of selling the pulp concerned.

2. Agreements within the trade may provide for pulp to be delivered at a stage other than that referred to in paragraph

1(a), (b) and (c).

Point XI

1. Contracts shall fix the time limits for any advance payments and for payment of the purchase price for beet.

2. Such time limits shall be those valid during the 2000/2001 marketing year; agreements within the trade may derogate

from this provision.

Point XII

Where contracts lay down rules covering matters which are dealt with in this Annex, or where they contain provisions
governing other matters, their provisions and effects must not conflict with this Annex.

Point XIII

1. Agreements within the trade as described in Point I(3)(b) shall contain arbitration clauses.

2. Where agreements within the trade at Community, regional or local level lay down rules covering matters which are
dealt with in this Regulation, or where they contain provisions governing other matters, their provisions and effects
must not conflict with this Annex.

3. Such agreements may lay down,

in particular:

(a) rules on the distribution to sellers of quantities of beet which the manufacturer decides to buy prior to sowing, for

the manufacture of sugar within the limits of the basic quota;

(b) rules on distribution as referred to in Point III(5);

(c) the conversion scale referred to in Point III(3);

(d) rules on the choice and supply of seeds of the varieties of beet to be produced;

(e) the minimum sugar content of beet to be delivered;

(f) a requirement for consultation between the manufacturer and the sellers' representatives before the starting date of

beet deliveries is fixed;

(g) the payment of premiums to sellers for early or late deliveries;

(h) details of:

— the part of the pulp referred to in Point X(1)(b),
— the costs referred to in Point X(1)(c),
— the compensation referred to in Point X(1)(d);

(i) the removal of pulp by the seller;

(j) rules on how any difference between the intervention price and the actual selling price of the sugar is to be

allocated between the manufacturer and sellers.

Point XIV

Where there is no set agreement within the trade as to how the quantities of beet intended for the manufacture of sugar
within the basic quota limits which the manufacturer offers to buy before sowing should be allocated among the sellers,
the Member State concerned may itself lay down rules for such allocation.

These rules may also grant to traditional sellers of beet to cooperatives delivery rights other than those which they would
enjoy if they belonged to such cooperatives.

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ANNEX IV

DETAILED RULES ON TRANSFERS OF QUOTAS BETWEEN FIRMS

Member States shall adopt such measures as they deem necessary to take account of the interests of sugar beet and cane
producers when quotas are allocated to a sugar-producing undertaking which has more than one factory.

Point I

Point II

1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, in the event of the merger or transfer of sugar-producing undertakings or the

transfer of sugar factories, the A and B quotas shall be adjusted as follows:

(a) in the event of the merger of sugar-producing undertakings, the Member States shall allocate to the undertaking
resulting from the merger an A quota and a B quota equal respectively to the sum of the A quotas and the sum of
the B quotas allocated prior to the merger to the sugar-producing undertakings concerned;

(b) in the event of the transfer of a sugar-producing undertaking, the Member State shall allocate the A quota and the
B quota of the transferred undertaking to the transferee undertaking for the production of sugar or, if there is
more than one transferee undertaking, the allocation shall be made in proportion to the sugar production
absorbed by each of them;

(c) in the event of the transfer of a sugar factory, the Member State shall reduce the A quota and the B quota of the
increase the A quota and the B quota of the
undertaking transferring ownership of the factory and shall
sugar-producing undertaking or undertakings purchasing the factory in question by the quantity deducted in
proportion to the production absorbed.

2. Where a number of the sugar-beet or cane producers directly affected by one of the operations referred to in
paragraph 1 expressly show their willingness to supply their beet or cane to a sugar-producing undertaking which is
not party to those operations, the Member State may make the allocation on the basis of the production absorbed by
the undertaking to which they intend to supply their beet or cane.

3. In the event of closure,

in circumstances other than those referred to in paragraph 1, of:

(a) a sugar-producing undertaking,

(b) one or more factories of a sugar-producing undertaking,

the Member State may allocate the part of the quotas involved in such closure to one or more sugar-producing
undertakings.

Also in the case referred to in (b) in the preceding subparagraph, where some of the producers concerned expressly
show their willingness to supply their beet or cane to a given sugar-producing undertaking, the Member State may
allocate the proportion of the quotas corresponding to the beet or cane concerned to the undertaking which they
intend to supply with those products.

4. Where the derogation referred to in Article 19(3) of this Regulation is invoked, the Member State concerned may
require the beet producers and sugar manufacturers concerned by that derogation to include in their agreements
within the trade special clauses enabling the Member State to apply paragraphs 2 and 3, where applicable.

5. In the event of the lease of a factory belonging to a sugar-producing undertaking, the Member State may reduce the
quotas of the undertaking offering the factory for rent and allocate the portion by which the quota was reduced to the
undertaking which rents the factory in order to produce sugar in it.

If the lease is terminated during the period of three marketing years referred to in Point V(d), the adjustment of quotas
under the preceding subparagraph shall be cancelled retroactively by the Member State as at the date on which the
lease took effect. However, if the lease is terminated by reason of force majeure, the Member State shall not be bound
to cancel the adjustment.

6. Where a sugar-producing undertaking can no longer ensure that it meets its obligations under Community regulations
towards the sugar-beet or cane producers concerned, and where that situation has been ascertained by the competent
authorities of the Member State concerned, the latter may allocate for one or more marketing years the part of the
quotas involved to one or more sugar-producing undertakings in proportion to the production absorbed.

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7. Where a Member State grants a sugar-producing undertaking price and outlet guarantees for processing sugar beet
into ethyl alcohol, the Member State may, in agreement with that undertaking and the beet producers concerned,
allocate all or part of the sugar-production quotas to one or more other undertakings for one or more marketing
years.

In the event of the merger or transfer of isoglucose-producing undertakings, the transfer of an isoglucose-producing
factory or the closure of one or more isoglucose-producing undertakings or one or more factories belonging to such an
undertaking, the Member State may allocate the quotas involved for the production of isoglucose to one or more other
undertakings, whether or not they have a production quota.

Point III

The measures taken pursuant to Points II and III may take effect only if:

(a) the interests of each of the parties concerned are taken into consideration

and

Point IV

(b) the Member State concerned considers that they are likely to improve the structure of the beet, cane and sugar-manu-

facturing sectors

and

(c) they concern undertakings established in the same region within the meaning of Article 11(2) of this Regulation.

For the purposes of this Annex:

Point V

(a) ‘merger of undertakings’ means the consolidation of two or more undertakings into a single undertaking;

(b) ‘transfer of an undertaking’ means the transfer or absorption of the assets of an undertaking having quotas to one or

more undertakings;

(c) ‘transfer of a factory’ means the transfer of ownership of a technical unit,

including all the plant required to
manufacture the product concerned, to one or more undertakings, resulting in the partial or total absorption of the
production of the undertaking making the transfer;

(d) ‘lease of a factory’ means the leasehold contract of a technical unit including all the plant required for the manufacture
of sugar, with a view to its operation, concluded for a period of at least three consecutive marketing years, which the
parties agree not to terminate before the end of the third marketing year, with an undertaking which is established in
the same region, within the meaning of Article 11(2) of this Regulation, as the factory concerned, if, after the lease
takes effect, the undertaking which rents the factory can be considered a solely sugar-producing undertaking for its
entire production.

Point VI

The measures referred to in Points II and III shall take effect when the closure of the undertaking or factory, the merger or
transfer occurs:

(a) between 1 July and 31 January of the following year, for the marketing year current during that period;

(b) between 1 February and 30 June of the same year, for the marketing year following that period.

Point VII

Where a Member State applies Article 12(2) of this Regulation, it shall allocate the adjusted quotas before 1 March with a
view to applying them in the following marketing year.

Where Points II and III are applied, Member States shall inform the Commission of the adjusted A and B quotas not later
than 15 days after expiry of the periods referred to in Point VI.

Point VIII

For the purposes of transfers of quotas in Italy, Spain and the French overseas departments under restructuring plans as
referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 12(2) of this Regulation, a group of sugar-producing undertakings
having technical, economic and structural links and jointly and severally liable for their obligations under Community
rules, particularly in respect of beet or cane growers, may be regarded as a sugar-producing undertaking.

Point IX

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ex 0403

ANNEX V

Description

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and
cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or
flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

0403 10

– Yoghurt;

0403 10 51 to
0403 10 99

Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

0403 90

– Other;

0403 90 71 to
0403 90 99

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

ex 0710

– Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water), frozen:

0710 40 00

– Sweetcorn

ex 0711

– Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur
immediate
in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for

water or
consumption:

0711 90

– Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

– – Vegetables:

0711 90 30

– Sweetcorn

1702 50 00

Chemically pure fructose

ex 1704

1806

ex 1901

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa, except liquorice extract of
subheading No 1704 90 10

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or
containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere
specified or included; food preparations of goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing
cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not
elsewhere specified or included:

1901 10 00

– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparations of bakers' wares of heading No 1905

1901 90

– Other:

– – Other:

1901 90 99

– – – Other

ex 1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared,
such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or
not prepared:

1902 20

– Stuffed pasta, (whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared):

– – Other

1902 20 91

– – – Cooked

1902 20 99

– – – Other

1902 30

1902 40

– Other pasta

– Couscous:

1902 40 90

– – Other

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1904

Description

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example,
cornflakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other
flour and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere
worked grains (except
specified or included:

ex 1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa;
communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice
paper and similar products:

1905 10 00

– Crispbread

1905 20

1905 30

1905 40

1905 90

– Gingerbread and the like

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers

– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products

– Other:

– – Other:

1905 90 40

– – – Waffles and wafers with a water content exceeding 10 %

1905 90 45

– – – Biscuits

1905 90 55

– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted

1905 90 60

– – – – With added sweetening matter

1905 90 90

– – – – Other

ex 2001

Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic
acid:

2001 90

– Other:

2001 90 30

– – Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001 90 40

– – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of

starch

ex 2004

2004 10

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other
than products of heading No 2006):

– Potatoes:

– – Other:

2004 10 91

– – – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2004 90

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10

– – Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

ex 2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen,
other than products of heading No 2006):

2005 20

– Potatoes:

2005 20 10

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00

– Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. Saccharata)

ex 2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these
products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee
substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee and preparations with a basis of these extracts,

essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

– – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 12 98

– – – Other:

– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these

extracts, essences or concentrates, or with a basis of tea or maté:

– – Preparations

2101 20 98

– – – Other

– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates

thereof:

– – Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

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Description

2101 30 19

– – – Other

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 99

– – – Other

ex 2102

2102 10

2102 10 31

2102 10 39

2105 00

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of
heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

– Active yeasts:

– – Bakers' yeast:

– – – Dried

– – – Other

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa:

ex 2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 90

– Other:

2106 90 10

– – Cheese fondues

– – Other:

2106 90 92

– – – – – Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing, by weight,
less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

2106 90 98

– – – – – Other

2202

2205

ex 2208

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening
matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of
heading No 2009

Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits,
liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

2208 20

– Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc:

2208 50 91 to
2208 50 99

Geneva

2208 70

Liqueurs and cordials:

2208 90 41 to
2208 90 78

– Other spirits and spirituous beverages:

2905 43 00

Mannitol

2905 44

D-glucitol (sorbitol)

ex 3302

Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of
one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations
based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

3302 10

– Of a kind used in the food or drink industries:

– – Of a kind used in the drink industries:

– – – Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:

– – – – – Other (of an actual alcoholic strengh by volume not exceeding 0,5 %):

3302 10 29

Other

ex Chapter 38

Miscellaneous chemical products:

3824 60

Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44

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ANNEX VI

STATES, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 35

Barbados

Belize

Côte d'Ivoire

Fiji

Guyana

Mauritius

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Uganda

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Saint Kitts and Nevis — Anguilla

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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ANNEX VII

CORRELATION TABLE

Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999

This Regulation

Article 1

Article 2(1)

Article 2(2) and (3)

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

Article 6

Article 7

Article 8

Article 9

Article 10

Article 11

Article 12

Article 13

Article 14

Article 15

Article 16

Article 17

Article 18

Article 19

Article 20

Article 21

1st indent of Article 22(1)

Article 22(2) and (3)

Article 23

Article 24

Article 25

Article 26(1)

Article 26(2)

Article 1

Article 1(2)(m)

Deleted

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

Article 6

Deleted

Article 7

Article 8

Article 9

Deleted

Article 22

Article 23

Article 24

Article 25

Article 26

Article 27

Article 28

Article 29

Article 30

Article 31

Deleted

Article 32

Article 33

Article 34

Article 10(1)

Article 11(3)

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Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999

This Regulation

Article 26(3)

Article 26(4)

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