CHAPTER IIITRADITIONAL SUPPLY NEEDS
Article 14Full-time refiners’ regime
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Only full-time refiners may apply for import licences for sugar intended for refining with a start validity date during the first three months of each marketing year. By way of derogation from the second subparagraph of Article 8 such licences shall be valid to the end of the marketing year for which they are issued.
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If, before the 1 January of each marketing year, applications for import licences for sugar for refining for that marketing year are equal or superior to the total of the quantities referred to in Article 153(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, the Commission shall inform the Member States that the limit of the traditional supply needs for that marketing year has been reached at Community level.
From the date of that notification, paragraph 1 shall not apply for the marketing year concerned.
Article 15Proof of refining and penalties
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Each original holder of an import licence for sugar for refining shall, within six months following the expiry of the import licence concerned, provide the Member State which issued it with proof acceptable to it that refining has taken place within the period set in Article 7(3).
Where such a proof is not provided, the applicant shall pay, before 1 June following the marketing year concerned, an amount equal to EUR 500 per tonne for the quantities of sugar concerned, except for exceptional reasons of force majeure.
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Sugar producers approved in accordance with Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall declare to the competent authority in the Member State before 1 March following the marketing year concerned the quantities of sugar which they have refined in that marketing year, stating:
a
the quantities of sugar corresponding to import licences for sugar for refining;
b
the quantities of sugar produced in the Community, giving the references of the approved undertaking which produced that sugar;
c
other quantities of sugar, stating their origin.
Producers shall pay, before 1 June following the marketing year concerned, an amount equal to EUR 500 per tonne for the quantities of sugar referred to in point (c) of the first subparagraph for which they cannot provide proof acceptable to the Member State that they were refined, except for exceptional reasons of force majeure.