Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 1998/78 is hereby amended as follows: 1. The first indent of Article 1 (2) (b) is replaced by the following: '- one of whose main activities consists of wholesale dealing in sugar and who purchases in each sugar marketing year not less than 10 000 tonnes of sugar eligible for reimbursement of storage costs for resale in an unaltered state,'. 2. Articles 4, 8 (4), 12 (2) and (3), 13 (4) and (5) are deleted. 3. Article 13 (1) (c) is replaced by the following: '(c) a breakdown, as between the various warehouses in which his sugar and syrups are stored.' 4. The first and second subparagraphs of Article 14 (2) are replaced by the following: '2. Where a manufacturer or a refiner stores at the same time and in the same warehouse both sugar eligible for reimbursement and sugar not so eligible without the possibility of distinguishing between them, then any exit of those sugars shall be regarded as constituted in the same proportions as those of the initial stock. However, where the quantity of sugar eligible for the said reimbursement is less than 150 tonnes the pro rata rule shall not apply for the storage month concerned. In this case the sugar eligible for reimbursement shall be considered to be the first to have left the warehouse. For purposes of the previous subparagraph, each quantity of sugar eligible for reimbursement or sugar not so eligible entering the said warehouse during a given month shall be added to the initial quantity of sugar eligible for reimbursement or sugar not so eligible, as the case may be, in store at the beginning of that month in that warehouse. The ratio between the two initial quantities, as modified by the quantities of each type of sugar entering the warehouse during the month in question, shall be applied to all sugar leaving the warehouse during that month.' 5. The following is inserted as Article 14b: 'Article 14b When sugar to which Article 14 (2) has already been applied is purchased by a person entitled to reimbursement of storage costs, the relationship between the quantity of sugar eligible for reimbursement and the quantity not so eligible resulting from the application of that provision shall remain applicable to the purchased sugar.'