
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 is amended as follows:

1.. in Article 1, point (e) is replaced by the following:
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((e)) Article 27(2) of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other part;';
2.. in Article 1, the following point (g) is added to the first paragraph:
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((g)) Article 11(4) of the Interim agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part.';
3.. in Article 2, point (b), the words ‘points (b) to (f)’ are replaced by the words ‘points (b) to (g)’;
4.. in Article 5(1), a second subparagraph is added:
'Without prejudice to the first subparagraph, licence applications for the first sub-period referred to in Article 3(2) may be submitted from the eighth to the 14th day of the month preceding that sub-period.';
5.. Article 8 is replaced by the following:
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Article 8 

1. Import licences applied for in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 5(1) shall be issued from the 23rd day until the last day of the month during which an application was made.
2. Import licences applied for in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 5(1) shall be issued from the first day until the eighth day of the month following the month during which an application was made.
3. The licences shall be valid until the end of the third month following that in which they were issued but no longer than 30 September. In case of exceptional import sugar and industrial import sugar, the licences shall be valid until the end of the marketing year for which they were issued.';
6.. in Article 9, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. Member States shall notify the Commission of the total quantities covered by import licence applications:
(a) no later than on the 14th day of the month during which the applications are submitted, in case of applications referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 5(1);
(b) no later than on the 21st day of the month during which the applications are submitted, in case of applications referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 5(1).';
7.. in Article 15(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.'.
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, 5 August 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO