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Under EU rules, such over-quota sugar cannot be sold as food in the bloc's tightly regulated sugar market.
"We are taking a relaxed view of this," Langendorf said. "We do not have the impression that we will not be able to market this volume."
"There is the possibility to sell for industrial sugar use and the possibility to export."
The main outlet for industrial sugar was likely to be bioethanol while the EU in August 2008 approved an export quota of 650,000 tonnes of sugar.
Competition for bioethanol sales will be tough because of falling prices for rival feedstock grain.
Germany's CropEnergies , one of Europe's largest bioethanol producers, said on Jan. 21 it was switching from sugar to wheat as a raw material because of falling grain prices. [ID:nLL736165]
"I am still confident we will make large sales for bioethanol production," he said. (Reporting by Michael Hogan; Editing by Anthony Barker)