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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-371/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2007/371",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 371/2007 of 2 April 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years for the import and refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-371",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 is amended as follows:\n1.. in Article 4(2), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:\n‘2. Notwithstanding Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Import licence applications shall be submitted each week, from Monday to Friday, starting on the date referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article and until the issue of licences is discontinued as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 5(3) of this Regulation.’;\n2.. Article 7(2) is replaced by the following:\n‘2. Where release for free circulation does not take place in the Member State which issued the import licence, the Member State of release for free circulation shall keep a copy of the import licence and, where appropriate, the supplementary document completed as provided for in Articles 22 and 23, and forward a copy to the Member State which issued the import licence. In such cases, the holder of the import licence shall retain the original.’;\n3.. Article 8(b) is replaced by the following:\n(b) ‘before 1 March and for the previous marketing year or the previous delivery period, as the case may be:\n(i) the total quantity actually imported:\nin the form of sugar for refining, expressed in tel quel weight and in white sugar equivalent,\nin the form of sugar not intended for refining, expressed in tel quel weight and in white sugar equivalent,\nin the form of white sugar,\n(ii) the quantity of sugar, by tel quel weight and in white sugar equivalent, that has actually been refined.’;\n4.. in Article 10(1), the following subparagraph is added:\n‘For the applications submitted under point (b) of the first subparagraph and by way of derogation from Article 4(2) second subparagraph, applicants may submit their licence applications to the competent authorities of a Member State in which they are not registered for VAT purposes. In that case, the applicant submits his approval as a full-time refiner according to Article 7(1)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 952/2006.’;\n5.. Article 11, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:\n‘3. Approved sugar producers shall pay, before 1 June following the marketing year concerned, an amount equal to EUR 500 per tonne for the quantities of sugar for which they cannot provide proof acceptable to the Member State that the sugar referred to in paragraph 2(c) is not imported sugar not intended for refining or, if it is sugar for refining, that it has not been refined for exceptional technical reasons or due to a case of force majeure.’;\n6.. in Article 24, paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:\n‘1. For each marketing year, tariff quotas for a total of 106 925 tonnes of raw cane sugar for refining, falling within CN code 1701 11 10, shall be opened as CXL concessions sugar at a duty of EUR 98 per tonne.\nHowever, for the 2006/2007 marketing year the quantity shall be 144 388 tonnes of raw cane sugar.\n2. The quantities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allocated by country of origin as follows:\n— Cuba 58 969 tonnes,\n— Brazil 34 054 tonnes,\n— Australia 9 925 tonnes,\n— other third countries 3 977 tonnes.\nHowever, for the 2006/2007 marketing year the allocation by country of origin shall be:\n— Cuba 73 711 tonnes,\n— Brazil 47 630 tonnes,\n— Australia 17 369 tonnes,\n— other third countries 5 678 tonnes.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 178, 1.5.2006, p. 39.’;"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/371/article/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}