| Accompanying measures/transitional assistance
| €1.2 billion of funding allocated to help mitigate the effects of reduction in the EU sugar price following reform in 2006 on ACP and LDC countries.
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| ACP country | The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States is an organisation of 48 Sub-Saharan African states, 16 Caribbean states and 15 Pacific states. It was established in 1975 with the aim of coordinating cooperation between its members and the EU.
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| Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
| formed between the EU and ACP countries on a regional basis although only the Caribbean EPA is fully operational.
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| Everything But Arms Agreement (EBA)
| grants tariff-free access to imports of all products (excluding arms and ammunitions) from LDCs.
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| Export refunds | financial support given to producers exporting sugar outside the EU to make up the difference between the EU market price and the world price.
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| Interprofessional agreement
| a contract between growers and the processor governing the terms of supply and processing of sugar beet.
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| Isoglucose | Liquid in form, isoglucose is a sweetener that is used as a sugar substitute mainly in the production of drinks. It is obtained from starch, which in turn is extracted from wheat or maize. Isoglucose quotas represent around 5 per cent of the overall production quota.
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| LDC country | Least Developed Countries are 48 countries suffering from the most severe structural impediments to sustainable development on the basis of GNI per capita, human assets, economic vulnerability and population size.
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| Private storage | aid to a sugar processor to take sugar off the market for a minimum period of time in order to stabilise the market.
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| Production quota | The total EU production quota of 13.3 million tonnes of sugar is divided between nineteen Member States. Production in excess of the quota is known as "out-of-quota" sugar and strict rules govern its use. Normally, it should only be used for non-food purposes.
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| Reference price | private storage aid may be paid when the EU market price falls below 85 per cent of this price.
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| Single Farm Payment |
a farm-based payment based on the level of former payments received by farmers.
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| Tariff | a customs duty on an imported good.
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| Tariff quota | an amount of any specific goods which can be imported with a reduced or zero tariff
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