1.The common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector established by this Regulation shall cover the following products:
| CN Code | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | 1212 91 | Sugar beet |
| 1212 99 20 | Sugar cane | |
| (b) | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form |
| (c) | 1702 20 | Maple sugar and maple syrup |
| 1702 60 95 and1702 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 | |
| (d) | 1702 30 10 1702 40 10 1702 60 10 1702 90 30 | Isoglucose |
| (e) | 1702 60 80 1702 90 80 | Inulin syrup |
| (f) | 1703 | Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar |
| (g) | 2106 90 30 | Flavoured or coloured isoglucose syrups |
| (h) | 2303 20 | Beet pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar undertakings |
2.The marketing year for the products listed in paragraph 1 shall begin on 1 October and end on 30 September of the following year.
However, the marketing year 2006/2007 shall begin on 1 July 2006 and end on 30 September 2007.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
‘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;
‘raw sugars’ means sugars, not flavoured or coloured or containing any other added substances, containing, in the dry state, less than 99,5 % by weight of sucrose, determined by the polarimetric method;
‘isoglucose’ means the product obtained from glucose or its polymers with a content by weight in the dry state of at least 10 % fructose;
‘inulin syrup’ means the immediate product obtained by hydrolysis of inulin or oligofructoses, containing in the dry state at least 10 % fructose in free form or as sucrose, and expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalents. In order to avoid restrictions on the market for products with low sweetening power produced by inulin fibre processors without inulin syrup quota, this definition may be amended in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 39(2);
‘quota sugar’, ‘quota isoglucose’ and ‘quota inulin syrup’ mean any quantity of sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup production attributed to a specific marketing year under the quota of the undertaking concerned;
‘industrial sugar’ means any quantity of sugar production attributed to a specific marketing year over and above the sugar quantity referred to in point (5), intended for the production by the industry of one of the products referred to in Article 13(2);
‘industrial isoglucose’ and ‘industrial inulin syrup’ mean any quantity of isoglucose or inulin syrup production attributed to a specific marketing year, intended for the production by the industry of one of the products referred to in Article 13(2);
‘surplus sugar’, ‘surplus isoglucose’ and ‘surplus inulin syrup’ mean any quantity of sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup production attributed to a specific marketing year over and above the respective quantities referred to in points (5), (6) and (7);
‘quota beet’ means all sugar beet processed into quota sugar;
‘delivery contract’ means a contract concluded between a seller and an undertaking for the delivery of beet for the manufacture of sugar;
‘agreement within the trade’ means one of the following:
an agreement concluded at Community level, prior to the conclusion of any delivery contract, between a group of national undertakings' organisations on the one hand and a group of national sellers' organisations on the other;
an agreement concluded, prior to the conclusion of any delivery contract, between undertakings or an undertakings' organisation recognised by the Member State concerned on the one hand and a sellers' association recognised by the Member State concerned on the other;
in the absence of any agreement as referred to in point (a) or (b), the law on companies and the law on cooperatives, in so far as they govern the delivery of sugar beet by the shareholders or members of a company or cooperative manufacturing sugar;
in the absence of any agreement as referred to in point (a) or (b), the arrangements existing before the conclusion of any delivery contract, provided the sellers accepting the arrangement supply at least 60 % of the total beet bought by the undertaking for the manufacture of sugar in one or more factories;
‘ACP/Indian sugar’ means sugar falling within CN code 1701 originating in the States listed in Annex VI and imported into the Community under:
Protocol 3 to Annex V to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement,
or
the Agreement on cane sugar between the European Community and the Republic of India(1);
‘full-time refiner’ means a production unit:
of which the sole activity consists of refining imported raw cane sugar,
or
which refined in the marketing year 2004/2005 a quantity of at least 15 000 tonnes of imported raw cane sugar.