1.Where no minimum customs duty has been fixed all tenders shall be rejected.
The competent authorities of the Member States shall not accept tenders that have not been notified as provided for in Article 5.
2.The competent authority concerned shall notify applicants within three working days after the day of publication of the Regulation referred in Article 6 of the result of their participation in the partial invitation to tender. It shall send statements of award to any tenderer whose tender quotes a customs duty for the eight digit CN code equal to or more than the minimum customs duty fixed for that eight digit CN code. The quantities awarded for a specific customs duty and eight digit CN code shall be the quantities tendered for that customs duty and eight digit CN code.
3.Statements of award shall indicate at least:
(a)the procedure to which the tender relates;
(b)the quantity of sugar awarded;
(c)the amount, expressed in euros rounded to no more than two decimal places, of the customs duty to be paid per tonne of sugar of the quantity referred to in point (b);
(d)the eight digit CN code of the sugar.