Minimum sugar quality
Article 25
1. Sugar offered to intervention shall meet the following requirements: (a) it must have been produced within a quota during the marketing year in which the offer is made; (b) it must be in crystal form. 2. White sugar offered to intervention shall be of sound and fair marketable quality, free-flowing, with a moisture content not exceeding 0,06 %. 3. Raw sugar offered to intervention shall be of sound and fair marketable quality with a yield, calculated in accordance with point III of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, of not less than 89 %. In the case of raw cane sugar, the sugar shall have a safety factor not exceeding 0,30. In the case of raw beet sugar, the sugar shall have: — a pH value not less than 7,9 at the time the offer is accepted, — an invert sugar content not exceeding 0,07 %, — a temperature which does not entail any risk of deterioration, — a safety factor not exceeding 0,45 when the degree of polarisation is 97 or above, or a moisture content not exceeding 1,4 % when the degree of polarisation is below 97. The safety factor shall be determined by dividing the percentage moisture content of the sugar concerned by the difference between 100 and the degree of polarisation of that sugar.