
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 924/2008 is amended as follows:

1.. In Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. For the 2008/2009 marketing year, running from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009, the quantitative limit referred to in Article 61, first subparagraph, point (d) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall be 950 000 tonnes for exports without refund of out-of-quota white sugar falling within CN code 1701 99.';
2.. The following Article 1a is inserted:
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Article 1a 
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 8a of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 the validity of export licences issued after 1 July 2009 in respect of the quantities referred to in Article 1(1) shall expire by the end of the third month following the month during which the export licence was issued.'
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, 26 August 2009.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission