Article 4b
1. Each undertaking to which a sugar production quota has been granted and each refinery covered by Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 shall notify to the competent authority of the Member State in which production or refining took place, before the 20th of each month, the total quantities, expressed as white sugar, of the sugars and syrups indicated in Article 1(1)(a), (b), (c), and (d) of this Regulation: - owned by it or covered by a warrant, and - stored in free circulation on Community territory at the end of the previous month. Those quantities shall be broken down by Member State of storage into: - sugar produced by that undertaking under A and B quotas, - sugar carried forward in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001, - C sugar, and - other sugar. 2. The authority indicated in paragraph 1 may also, for the purposes of administrative and physical checks, require undertakings to notify exact storage locations and purchases and sales of sugar. If storage is in a different Member State from the one notifying the Commission, the latter Member State shall inform the former of the quantities stored on its territory and their locations by the end of the following month. Each Member State shall notify to the Commission, before the end of the second month following, the total quantity of sugar stored at the end of each month by the undertakings indicated in paragraph 1, broken down by sugar type as indicated in the second subparagraph thereof. The notification for stocks on 30 June shall however break down each type of sugar in storage by Member State of storage. Where the type of sugar stored outside the country of production is not determined, this sugar is deemed to be A and B sugar. Before 31 August 2003 Member States shall notify the stocks of sugar on 30 June 2002 and 30 June 2003, broken down by Member State of storage and sugar type as indicated in paragraph 1. 3. Each undertaking to which a production quota has been granted for isoglucose or inulin syrup shall notify to the competent authority of the Member State in which production took place, before 1 August, the quantities, expressed as white sugar equivalent, of isoglucose or inulin syrup owned by it and stored in free circulation on Community territory at the end of the previous marketing year, broken down into: - isoglucose and inulin syrup produced by it under quotas A and B; - C isoglucose and C inulin syrup; and - other. Member States shall notify to the Commission, before 1 September, the quantities of isoglucose and inulin syrup stored at the end of the previous marketing year, broken down as specified in the first subparagraph.