
Article 1 
The request submitted on 2 June 2009 by the Netherlands, for an extension to the derogation from Decision 2001/822/EC, as regards the rules of origin for sugar from the Netherlands Antilles, for which a request was submitted on 4 October 2002 by the Netherlands, is rejected.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Annex III to Decision 2001/822/EC, sugar products processed in the Netherlands Antilles falling within CN codes 1701 99 10 and 1701 91 00 shall be regarded as originating in the Netherlands Antilles where they are obtained from non-originating sugar, in accordance with the terms set out in Articles 3, 4 and 5 of this Decision.
Article 3 
The derogation provided for in Article 2 shall apply to the sugar products which are imported into the Community from the Netherlands Antilles from 7 August 2009 to 31 December 2010 within the limits of the annual quantities for import of sugar for 2009 and 2010, laid down in Article 6(4) of Annex III to Decision 2001/822/EC, and for which import licenses for sugar have been allocated to the Netherlands Antilles.
Article 4 
The customs authorities of the Netherlands Antilles shall take the necessary measures to carry out quantitative checks on exports of the products referred to in Article 2.
All the movement certificates EUR. 1 they issue in relation to those products shall bear a reference to this Decision.
The competent authorities of the Netherlands Antilles shall forward to the Commission a quarterly statement of the quantities in respect of which EUR.1 movement certificates have been issued pursuant to this Decision and the serial numbers of those certificates.
Article 5 
Box 7 of EUR 1 certificates issued under this Decision shall contain one of the following entries:

— ‘Derogation — Decision 2009/699/EC’;
— ‘Dérogation — Décision 2009/699/CE’.
Article 6 
This Decision shall apply from 7 August 2009 until 31 December 2010.
Article 7 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 9 September 2009.
For the Commission
László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission