
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 950/2006 is amended as follows:

1.. in Article 4(2), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
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2. Notwithstanding Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006, Import licence applications shall be submitted each week, from Monday to Friday, starting on the date referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article and until the issue of licences is discontinued as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 5(3) of this Regulation.';
2.. Article 7(2) is replaced by the following:
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2. Where release for free circulation does not take place in the Member State which issued the import licence, the Member State of release for free circulation shall keep a copy of the import licence and, where appropriate, the supplementary document completed as provided for in Articles 22 and 23, and forward a copy to the Member State which issued the import licence. In such cases, the holder of the import licence shall retain the original.';
3.. Article 8(b) is replaced by the following:
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((b)) before 1 March and for the previous marketing year or the previous delivery period, as the case may be:

((i)) the total quantity actually imported:

— in the form of sugar for refining, expressed in tel quel weight and in white sugar equivalent,
— in the form of sugar not intended for refining, expressed in tel quel weight and in white sugar equivalent,
— in the form of white sugar,
((ii)) the quantity of sugar, by tel quel weight and in white sugar equivalent, that has actually been refined.';
4.. in Article 10(1), the following subparagraph is added:
'For the applications submitted under point (b) of the first subparagraph and by way of derogation from Article 4(2) second subparagraph, applicants may submit their licence applications to the competent authorities of a Member State in which they are not registered for VAT purposes. In that case, the applicant submits his approval as a full-time refiner according to Article 7(1)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 952/2006.';
5.. Article 11, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
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3. Approved sugar producers shall pay, before 1 June following the marketing year concerned, an amount equal to EUR 500 per tonne for the quantities of sugar for which they cannot provide proof acceptable to the Member State that the sugar referred to in paragraph 2(c) is not imported sugar not intended for refining or, if it is sugar for refining, that it has not been refined for exceptional technical reasons or due to a case of force majeure.';
6.. in Article 24, paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:
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1. For each marketing year, tariff quotas for a total of 106 925 tonnes of raw cane sugar for refining, falling within CN code 1701 11 10, shall be opened as CXL concessions sugar at a duty of EUR 98 per tonne.However, for the 2006/2007 marketing year the quantity shall be 144 388 tonnes of raw cane sugar.
2. The quantities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allocated by country of origin as follows:— Cuba58 969 tonnes,— Brazil34 054 tonnes,— Australia9 925 tonnes,— other third countries3 977 tonnes.However, for the 2006/2007 marketing year the allocation by country of origin shall be:— Cuba73 711 tonnes,— Brazil47 630 tonnes,— Australia17 369 tonnes,— other third countries5 678 tonnes.'
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, 2 April 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission