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1.Until the end of the 2016-2017 marketing year, an exclusive import capacity of 2 500 000 tonnes per marketing year, expressed in white sugar, shall be granted to full-time refiners.
2.The sole sugar beet processing plant at work in 2005 in Portugal shall be deemed to be a full-time refiner.
3.Import licences for sugar for refining shall be issued only to full-time refiners provided that the quantities concerned do not exceed the quantities referred to in paragraph1. The licences may be transferred only between full-time refiners and their validity shall expire at the end of the marketing year for which they have been issued.
This paragraph shall apply for the first three months of each marketing year.
4.Taking into account the need to ensure that sugar for refining imported in accordance with this Article is refined, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 laying down:
(a)the use of terms for the operation of the import arrangements referred to in paragraph 1;
(b)the conditions and eligibility requirements that an operator has to fulfil to lodge an application for an import licence, including the lodging of a security;
(c)rules on administrative penalties to be charged.
5.The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down necessary rules concerning the supporting documents to be supplied in connection with the requirements and obligations applicable to importers, and in particular to full-time refiners. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 229(2).