Article 8
1. The reimbursement and the levy applicable to the syrups obtained prior to the crystallizing stage, as referred to in the third indent of the first subparagraph of Article 8 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, shall be calculated on the basis of their extractable sugar content. The extractable sugar content shall be determined according to the provisions of Article 1 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 700/73. Alternatively, Member States may determine this content according to the actual yield. The method chosen by the Member State concerned shall remain unchanged during a given sugar marketing year. 2. "Syrups obtained prior to the crystallizing stage" means those syrups which fall within subheading 17.02 D II of the Common Customs Tariff and are subsequently processed into solid sugar under customs control, or under an administrative control providing equivalent safeguards, and which are stored in special containers separated from the sugar manufacturing plant. 3. The reimbursement for syrups obtained by dissolving crystallized sugar, referred to in the fourth indent of the first subparagraph of Article 8 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 and in the fourth indent of the second subparagraph of that Article, shall be calculated on the basis of their sucrose content. For this purpose the sucrose content, including where appropriate other sugars expressed as sucrose, shall be the total sugar content determined by the application of the Lane and Eynon method (copper reduction method) to the solution inverted according to Clerget-Herzfeld. The total sugar content thus determined shall be expressed as sucrose by multiplying by 0 95. 4. The reimbursement and the levy applicable to the syrups obtained directly from preferential raw sugar, as referred to in the fifth indent of the second subparagraph of Article 8 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, shall be calculated according to the method prescribed in paragraph 3.