
Article 1 
The intervention agencies of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Sweden shall offer for sale by standing invitation to tender on the Community internal market a maximum total quantity of 601 981 tonnes of sugar accepted into intervention and available for sale on the internal market.
The maximum quantities involved per Member State are set out in Annex I.
Article 2 

1. The period during which tenders may be submitted in response to the first partial invitation to tender shall begin on 1 October 2007 and shall end on 10 October 2007 at 15.00, Brussels time.The periods during which tenders may be submitted in response to the second and subsequent partial invitations shall begin on the first working day following the end of the preceding period. They shall end at 15.00, Brussels time on:
— 24 October 2007,
— 7 and 21 November 2007,
— 5 and 19 December 2007,
— 9 and 30 January 2008,
— 13 and 27 February 2008,
— 12 and 26 March 2008,
— 9 and 23 April 2008,
— 7 and 28 May 2008,
— 11 and 25 June 2008,
— 9 and 23 July 2008,
— 6 and 27 August 2008,
— 10 and 24 September 2008.
2. The tender price shall refer to white sugar and raw sugar of the standard quality as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.
3. The minimum quantity of the tender per lot in accordance with article 42(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 952/2006 shall be 250 tonnes unless the available quantity for that lot is less than 250 tonnes. In such cases the available quantity must be tendered.
4. Tenders shall be lodged with the intervention agency holding the sugar as set out in Annex I.
Article 3 
The intervention agencies concerned shall communicate to the Commission tenders submitted within two hours after the expiry of the deadline for the submissions laid down in Article 2(1).
The tenderers shall not be identified.
Tenders submitted shall be communicated in electronic form according to the model laid down in Annex II.
When no tenders are submitted, the Member State shall communicate this to the Commission within the same time limit.
Article 4 

1. The Commission shall fix per Member State concerned the minimum sale price or decide not to accept the tenders in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 39(2) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.
2. For intervention sugar which is not of the standard quality, Member States shall adjust the actual sale price by way of application mutatis mutandis of, respectively, Article 32(6) and Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 952/2006.
3. Where an award at a minimum price set pursuant to paragraph 1 would result in the available quantity for the Member State concerned being exceeded, that award shall be limited to such quantity as is still available.Where awards for a Member State to all tenderers offering the same price would result in the quantity for that Member State being exceeded, then the quantity available shall be awarded as follows:
(a) by division among the tenderers concerned in proportion of the total quantities in each of their tenders; or
(b) by apportionment among the tenderers concerned by reference to a maximum tonnage fixed for each of them; or
(c) by drawing of lots.
4. On the fifth working day at the latest after the Commission fixes the minimum sale price, the intervention agencies involved shall communicate to the Commission, in the form laid down in Annex III, the quantity actually sold by partial invitation to tender.
Article 5 
By way of derogation from the second paragraph of Article 59 of Regulation (EC) No 952/2006, that Regulation shall apply to the resale, as referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, of sugar accepted into intervention before 10 February 2006.
Article 6 
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, 14 September 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I
Member State Intervention agency Quantities held by the intervention agency and available for the sale on the internal market(in tonnes)
Belgium 
Bureau d’intervention et de restitution belgeRue de Trèves, 82B-1040 BruxellesTél. (32-2) 287 24 11Fax (32-2) 287 25 24
 21 409
Czech Republic 
Státní zemědělský intervenční fondOddělení pro cukr a škrobVe Smečkách 33CZ-110 00 PRAHA 1Tel.: (420) 222 87 14 27Fax: (420) 222 87 18 75
 30 754
Ireland 
Intervention Sectionon Farm InvestmentSubsidies and storage DivisionDepartment of Agriculture & FoodJohnstown Castle EstateWexfordTel. (00 353) 536 34 37Fax (00 353) 914 28 43
 12 000
Spain 
Fondo Español de Garantia AgrariaC/Beneficencia, 8E-28004 MadridTel. (34) 913 47 64 66Fax (34) 913 47 63 97
 24 084
Italy 
AGEA — Agenzia per le erogazioni in agricolturaUfficio ammassi pubblici e privati e alcoolVia Torino, 45I-00185 RomaTel. (39) 06 49 49 95 58Fax (39) 06 49 49 97 61
 322 915
Hungary 
Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési HivatalSoroksári út 22–24.H-1095 BudapestTel.: (36-1) 219 45 76Fax: (36-1) 219 89 05 vagy (36-1) 219 62 59
 100 462
Slovakia 
Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúraOddelenie cukru a ostatných komodítDobrovičova 12815 26 BratislavaSlovenská republikaTel.: (421-2) 58 24 32 55Fax: (421-2) 53 41 26 65
 34 000
Sweden 
Statens jordbruksverkVallgatan 8S-551 82 JönköpingTfn (46-36) 15 50 00Fax (46-36) 19 05 46
 56 357
ANNEX II

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Member State selling intervention sugar Numbering of tenderers Lot No Quantity(tonnes) Tender priceEUR/100 kg
 1   
 2   
 3   
 etc.   

ANNEX III

1 2
Member State selling intervention sugar Quantity actually sold(in tonnes)
 
