Article 7

Member States shall notify the Commission, no later than the first working day of the following week, of the quantities of raw or white-sugar (where necessary, expressed as ‘white-sugar equivalent’), for which applications for import licences after applying the percentage allocation provided for in Article 6(2) have been submitted during the preceding week. Member States shall specify the marketing year concerned, the quantities by country of origin and by eight-digit CN code, and whether the sugar is for refining or for purposes other than refining. If no application for an import licence has been submitted, the Member States shall likewise notify the Commission.

The Commission shall draw up a weekly total of the quantities for which applications for import licences have been submitted.

In the case of the global tariff quotas referred to in Article 3(1), where applications for import licences exceed the quota quantity for the current marketing year, the Commission shall set a percentage allocation in proportion to the balance remaining for the Member States to apply to each application for an import licence, and shall notify the Member States that the maximum quantity of the quota concerned has been reached and no further application for an import licence is admissible.

Where the weekly total referred to in paragraph 2 reveals the existence of available quantities of sugar for which the maximum quantity had been reached previously, the Commission shall inform the Member States that the maximum quantity is no longer attained.