# Commission Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 of 27 March 2006 laying down transitional measures within the framework of the reform of the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector, and amending Regulations (EC) No 1265/2001 and (EC) No 314/2002, Article 5: Refining aid

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Adjustment aid shall be granted to the industry refining preferential raw cane sugar imported under Protocol 3 on ACP sugar attached to Annex IV to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, and refined in the 2005/2006 delivery period between 1 July 2006 and 30 September 2006.
This aid shall be paid to refineries. It shall apply to the quantities referred to in Regulation (EC) No 180/2006 and not refined by 1 July 2006, as a replacement for the aid referred to in Article 38(1), (2) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.
2. Regulation (EC) No 1646/2001 shall apply to the preferential sugar refined in the 2005/2006 delivery period.
3. Except in cases of force majeure, where the presumed maximum supply needs for a Member State as laid down in Article 39(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 are exceeded in the course of the 2005/2006 marketing year, a quantity corresponding to the excess shall be subject to the payment of an amount corresponding to the full rate of import duty in force for the marketing year in question, increased by EUR 115,40 per tonne of white sugar equivalent.
4. Regulation (EC) No 1460/2003 shall apply to control and, where appropriate, the consequences of exceeding the presumed maximum supply needs for the refining industries as referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article.
5. For the purposes of this Article, ‘refinery’ means a production unit whose sole activity consists in refining either raw sugar or syrups produced prior to the crystallising stage.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/493/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-493/article-5
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