
Article 1 

1. Without prejudice to Regulations (EC) No 274/2009 and (EC) No 1106/2009, an additional quantity of 500 000 tonnes of out-of-quota white sugar falling within CN code 1701 99 may be exported without refund in respect of marketing year 2009/2010.
2. Exports within the quantitative limit fixed in paragraph 1 shall be allowed for all destinations excluding:
(a) third countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Holy See (Vatican City State), San Marino, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;
(b) territories of Member States not forming part of the customs territory of the Union: the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Heligoland, Ceuta, Melilla, the communes of Livigno and Campione d’Italia, and the areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control;
(c) European territories for whose external relations a Member State is responsible, not forming part of the customs territory of the Union: Gibraltar.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, export licences issued in respect of the additional quantitative limit referred to in Article 1(1) shall be valid 30 days.
Article 3 
Articles 7e and 9 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 shall apply accordingly.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall expire on 30 June 2010.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 3 February 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO