Intervention price for and quality of white sugar
Article 32
1. The intervention price for white sugar shall be: — EUR 505,52 per tonne in the 2006/07 marketing year, — EUR 433,20 per tonne in the 2007/08 marketing year, — EUR 323,52 per tonne in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 marketing years. 2. White sugar shall be classified into four grades as follows: (a) Grade 1: sugar which is superior in quality to the standard quality; (b) Grade 2: sugar of the standard quality as defined in point II of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006; (c) Grades 3 and 4: sugar which is inferior in quality to the standard quality. 3. Grade 1 sugar shall have the following characteristics: (a) sound and fair marketable quality, dry, in homogeneously granulated, free-flowing crystals; (b) maximum moisture content: 0,06 %; (c) maximum invert sugar content: 0,04 %; (d) the number of points shall not exceed a total of eight, or: — six for the ash content, — four for the colour type determined according to the method of the Brunswick Institute for Agricultural Technology and the Sugar Industry, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Brunswick Method’, — three for the solution colour determined according to the ICUMSA Method. One point shall correspond to: (a) 0,0018 % ash content determined according to the ICUMSA Method at 28° Brix; (b) 0,5 unit of colour type determined according to the Brunswick Method; (c) 7,5 units of solution colour determined according to the ICUMSA Method. 4. Grade 3 sugar shall have the following characteristics: (a) sound and fair marketable quality, dry, in homogeneously-granulated, free-flowing crystals; (b) minimum polarisation: 99,7°S; (c) maximum moisture content: 0,06 %: (d) maximum invert sugar content: 0,04 %; (e) colour type: maximum No 6 determined according to the Brunswick Method. 5. Grade 4 sugar shall include sugar not included in Grades 1, 2 and 3. 6. The intervention price fixed in paragraph 1 shall be reduced by: (a) EUR 7,30 per tonne for Grade 3 sugar; (b) EUR 13,10 per tonne for Grade 4 sugar;