Commission Regulation (EC) No 967/2006Show full title

CHAPTER V SPECIFIC SUPPLY ARRANGEMENTS AND EXPORT

Article 18 Outermost regions

1. Surplus raw materials used for the purposes of the specific supply arrangements for the outermost regions in accordance with Article 12(c) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 and within the quantitative limits set in the programmes referred to in Article 24(1) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 shall be the subject of a contract of direct sale from the manufacturer which produced them to an operator entered in one of the registers referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 793/2006.

2. The contract referred to in paragraph 1 shall provide in particular for the transmission between the parties of:

(a) a statement by the manufacturer of the quantity of surplus raw materials delivered under the contract; and

(b) a statement by the operator concerned that the quantity in question has been delivered under the specific supply arrangements.

For surplus raw materials, the application for the aid certificate referred to in Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 793/2006 shall be accompanied by the statement by the producer referred to in paragraph 2(a) of this Article. Box 20 of the aid certificate shall contain the entry ‘C sugar: no aid’ as referred to in Part F of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 793/2006.

The competent authorities who issued the aid certificate shall send a copy of that certificate to the competent authorities of the Member State in which the manufacturer was approved.

The quantities of raw materials for which the manufacturer presents the statement referred to in paragraph 2(b), and for which the Member State concerned has copies of the aid certificate, shall be considered to have been delivered under the specific supply arrangements, as provided for in point (c) of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1).

Article 19 Export

1. The export licences referred to in point (d) of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1) shall be issued within the quantitative limits on export without refund to be set by the Commission in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.

2. Surplus quantities shall be considered to have been exported within the meaning of point (d) of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1) of this Regulation where:

(a) the product has been exported without refund as white sugar, unprocessed isoglucose or unprocessed inulin syrup;

(b) the Member State of export has accepted the relevant export declaration before 1 January following the end of the marketing year during which the surplus raw material was produced;

(c) the manufacturer has submitted to the competent authority of the Member State, before 1 April following the marketing year in which the surplus was produced:

(i)

the export licence issued to it in accordance with Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006;

(ii)

the documents referred to in Articles 32 and 33 of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 required to release the guarantee;

(iii)

a statement that the quantities exported have been entered in the accounts as the surplus quantities referred to in point (d) of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1) of this Regulation.