Commission Regulation (EU) No 703/2010Show full title

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 828/2009 is amended as follows:

1.

In Article 1, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4. A country listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1528/2007 or listed as least-developed country in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 shall be added on its own request to Annex I to this Regulation.’;

2.

In Article 9(4), a second subparagraph is added:

‘Member States shall notify the Commission before 1 March and for the previous marketing year of the quantities of sugar which has actually been imported, broken down by reference number and country of origin and expressed in kilograms white sugar equivalent.’;

3.

In Article 11(2), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘Producers shall pay, before 1 June following the marketing year concerned, an amount equal to EUR 500 per tonne for the quantities of sugar referred to in point (c) of the first subparagraph, for which they cannot provide a proof, acceptable to a Member State, that refining took place for justified and exceptional technical reasons.’;

4.

Part I of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 828/2009 is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 August 2010.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso