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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1776/annex-I/chapter-20/annotations/3/annotation/2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/1776",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1776 of 9 October 2019 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1776",
  "path": "annex/I/chapter/20/annotations/3/annotation/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(a) The content of various sugars expressed as sucrose (sugar content) of products classified in this Chapter corresponds to the figure indicated by a refractometer (used in accordance with the method prescribed in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 974/2014) at a temperature of 20 °C and multiplied by one of the following factors:\n0,93 in respect of products of subheadings 2008 20 to 2008 80, 2008 93, 2008 97 and 2008 99;\n0,95 in respect of products of the other headings.\nHowever, the content of various sugars expressed as sucrose (sugar content) of the following products classified in this Chapter:\nproducts manufactured on the basis of seaweed and other algae prepared or preserved by processes not provided for in Chapter 12;\nproducts manufactured on the basis of manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content of heading 0714;\nproducts manufactured on the basis of vine leaves;\ncorresponds to the figure resulting from a calculation carried out on the basis of measurements which have been obtained applying the high performance liquid chromatography method (the “HPLC method”), using the following formula:\nS + (G + F) × 0,95;\nwhere:\n“S” is the sucrose content determined by the HPLC method;\n“F” is the fructose content determined by the HPLC method;\n“G” is the glucose content determined by the HPLC method.\n(b) The expression ‘Brix value’, mentioned in the subheadings of heading 2009, corresponds to the figure indicated by a refractometer (used in accordance with the method prescribed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 974/2014) at a temperature of 20 °C.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 974/2014 of 11 September 2014 laying down the refractometry method of measuring dry soluble residue in products processed from fruit and vegetables for the purposes of their classification in the Combined Nomenclature (OJ L 274, 16.9.2014, p. 6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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