Commission Regulation (EC) No 952/2006Show full title

SECTION 3 U.K. Conditions for intervention buying-in

Article 32 U.K. Intervention price for and quality of white sugar

1. The intervention price for white sugar shall be:

• EUR 505,52 per tonne in the 2006/07 marketing year,

• EUR 433,20 per tonne in the 2007/08 marketing year,

• EUR 323,52 per tonne in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 marketing years.

2. White sugar shall be classified into four grades as follows:

(a) Grade 1: sugar which is superior in quality to the standard quality;

(b) Grade 2: sugar of the standard quality as defined in point II of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006;

(c) Grades 3 and 4: sugar which is inferior in quality to the standard quality.

3. Grade 1 sugar shall have the following characteristics:

(a) sound and fair marketable quality, dry, in homogeneously granulated, free-flowing crystals;

(b) maximum moisture content: 0,06 %;

(c) maximum invert sugar content: 0,04 %;

(d) the number of points shall not exceed a total of eight, or:

• (d) six for the ash content,

• four for the colour type determined according to the method of the Brunswick Institute for Agricultural Technology and the Sugar Industry, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Brunswick Method’,

• three for the solution colour determined according to the ICUMSA Method.

One point shall correspond to:

(a) 0,0018 % ash content determined according to the ICUMSA Method at 28° Brix;

(b) 0,5 unit of colour type determined according to the Brunswick Method;

(c) 7,5 units of solution colour determined according to the ICUMSA Method.

4. Grade 3 sugar shall have the following characteristics:

(a) sound and fair marketable quality, dry, in homogeneously-granulated, free-flowing crystals;

(b) minimum polarisation: 99,7°S;

(c) maximum moisture content: 0,06 %;

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

(e) colour type: maximum No 6 determined according to the Brunswick Method.

5. Grade 4 sugar shall include sugar not included in Grades 1, 2 and 3.

6. The intervention price fixed in paragraph 1 shall be reduced by:

(a) EUR 7,30 per tonne for Grade 3 sugar;

(b) EUR 13,10 per tonne for Grade 4 sugar.

Article 33 U.K. Intervention price for raw sugar

1. The intervention price for raw sugar shall be:

• EUR 397,44 per tonne in the 2006/07 marketing year,

• EUR 359,04 per tonne in the 2007/08 marketing year,

• EUR 268,16 per tonne in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 marketing years.

2. The intervention price fixed in paragraph 1 shall be:

(a) increased where the yield of the sugar is more than 92 %;

(b) reduced where the yield of the sugar is less than 92 %.

3. The amount of the increase or reduction, expressed in euro per tonne, shall be equal to the difference between the intervention price for raw sugar and the same price multiplied by a coefficient. The coefficient shall be obtained by dividing the yield of the raw sugar concerned by 92 %.

4. The yield of raw sugar shall be calculated in accordance with point III of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.

Article 34 U.K. Payment period

The intervention agency shall make payment no earlier than 120 days from the day on which the offer is accepted, provided the checks to verify the weight and quality of the offered lots have been conducted in accordance with Section 4.