Section 8Sec./Art. 8

Sugar Supply Monitoring System. As the agency mandated to regulate the supply of sugar in the country, in addition to its powers and functions under Executive Order No. 18, series of 1986, the SRA shall establish a supply chain monitoring system from sugarcane to sugar at the retail level to ensure sufficiency and safety of sugar.

To accurately determine the supply of sugarcane and sugar in the country and to provide sound basis for diversification, planning and policy, it is mandated that the following shall register with the SRA:

(a) Sugarcane farmers, farmers associations/federations, mills/mill associations, sugarcane consolidators and muscovado producers;

(b) Distilleries, using molasses, sugar or sugarcane as ingredient for alcohol: Provided, That importers, and consignees of imported molasses regularly report to the SRA, among other information, the volume of molasses imported;

(c) International and domestic sugar traders, including wholesale traders and repackers, muscovado and molasses traders and customs bonded warehouses (CBWs) of food processors importing sugar for reexport: Provided, That international and domestic sugar traders and the CBW food processors shall likewise submit a list of all their warehouses of sugar;

(d) Warehouses of sugar, and business establishments that manufacture or sell bags or sacks for packing sugar; and

(e) Cane hauling and harvesting service providers.

The SRA shall provide the forms and make sure that the manner of registration shall be the least possible cost to the stakeholder concerned particularly agrarian reform beneficiaries. The information gathered shall be used to develop a sugarcane industry database which shall be administered and updated by the SRA. Any of the aforementioned entities that shall not register shall be subject to penalties imposed by the SRA.