Article 2
Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 is hereby amended as follows. 1. Article 4 is replaced by the following: "Article 4 1. For each marketing year a Community supply balance for sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup shall be drawn up and also a sugar supply balance for each Member State. The balances shall be consolidated at the end of the following marketing year. 2. Member States shall establish provisional sugar and inulin syrup production figures for the current marketing year for each undertaking located in their territories and notify them to the Commission before 1 March each year. Sugar production shall be broken down by month. For the French departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique and for Spain as regards cane sugar, the provisional production shall be established and notified by 1 July each year. 3. Member States shall notify to the Commission before 1 June each year the areas and production of (a) beet for production of sugar, alcohol and other products respectively, and (b) chicory for production of inulin syrup, for the current marketing year and estimates of them for the following year. 4. Before 5 September each year Member States shall determine and notify to the Commission actual A, B and C production of sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup respectively in the previous marketing year by each undertaking located in their territory. Sugar production shall be broken down by month. 5. Where it is necessary to amend actual sugar production on the basis of the information notified under paragraph 4, the resulting difference shall be taken into account in determining actual production in the marketing year during which this difference came to light. 6. Before 1 March each year Member States shall notify the Commission of the A and B sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup allocations to each undertaking for the current marketing year." 2. The following Articles 4a, 4b and 4c are added: "Article 4a 1. Before the 15th day of each month each isoglucose-producing undertaking shall notify to the Member State on whose territory its production took place the quantities, expressed as dry matter, actually produced during the previous month. Member States shall establish the isoglucose production of each such undertaking in each month and notify it to the Commission before the end of the second month following. The quantities produced under inward processing arrangements shall be notified separately. They shall not count for the purposes of the second subparagraph. 2. Notwithstanding the first and second subparagraphs of paragraph 1, a Member State's competent authorities may decide, at an isoglucose-producing undertaking's substantiated written request: (a) either to combine its May and June production of the previous marketing year and count the figure against the current marketing year; (b) or to combine all or part of its June production of a marketing year with its July production of the next marketing year and count the figure against the latter marketing year. In the case set out in point (b) of the first subparagraph, the request for combination must indicate at least the June production quantity to be combined with the July figure. That quantity may not exceed 7 % of the sum of the undertaking's A and B quotas for the marketing year during which the request for combination is made. The combined quantity shall be considered as the first production against the undertaking's quotas. In reaching its decision the Member State shall take into account the undertaking's production situation and market demand, with particular reference to quotas and production levies. An undertaking may benefit from only one of the two combination types indicated in the first subparagraph in a given marketing year. 3. After agreement by the Member State the undertaking shall notify to it, before the following 15 July (in the case referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2) or 15 August (in the case referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2) the quantities, expressed as dry matter, actually produced during the two-month period, account taken as appropriate of the actual quantity to be combined referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 2. 4. The Member State shall establish and notify to the Commission, before 15 October, the combined isoglucose production of the undertaking concerned during the two months in question that is to be counted against the current marketing year's production, in accordance with point (a) or (b) respectively of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2. 5. The provisions of point (b) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 shall not be applicable to the last marketing year indicated in Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.