1.Without prejudice to other Community provisions and in particular Regulation (EC) No 800/1999, export refunds shall only be granted on the products listed in Annex I hereto where:
(a)they meet the conditions laid down in Annex I hereto; and
(b)box 44 of the export declaration bears the words ‘goods complying with Regulation (EC) No 903/2008’.
2.For the purposes of this Regulation, products manufactured for human consumption and suitable therefor by reason of the raw materials used, their preparation under satisfactory hygienic conditions and their packaging shall be deemed to be of sound and fair marketable quality within the meaning of Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999.
When the checks referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2090/2002 are conducted, the checks on the products covered by this Regulation shall entail:
an organoleptic examination; and
physical and chemical analyses using the methods laid down in Annex II hereto.
Regulation (EC) No 2331/97 is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex IV.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 17 September 2008.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso