COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/1675

of 29 September 2022

fixing the representative prices, import duties and additional import duties applicable to molasses in the sugar sector from 1 October 2022

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (1), and in particular Article 183 and 193a thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 (2) provides that the cif import price for molasses of the standard quality defined in Article 27 of that Regulation is to be considered the ‘representative price’.

(2) For the purposes of fixing the representative prices, account must be taken of all the information provided for in Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, except in the cases provided for in Article 30 of that Regulation and those prices should be fixed, where appropriate, in accordance with the method provided for in Article 33 of that Regulation.

(3) Prices not relating to the standard quality should be adjusted upwards or downwards, according to the quality of the molasses offered, in accordance with Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.

(4) Pursuant to Article 40 of the Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, where the molasses representative price referred to in Article 34(2) plus the import duty applicable to cane molasses falling within CN code 1703 10 00, or to beet molasses falling within CN code 1703 90 00, exceed, for the product in question, 8,21 EUR/100 kg, the import duties shall be suspended and replaced by the amount of the difference found by the Commission.

(5) Should the import duties be suspended pursuant to Article 40 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, specific amounts for these duties should be fixed at the same time as the representative prices.

(6) Where there is a difference between the trigger price for the product concerned and the representative price, additional import duties should be fixed in accordance with Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.

(7) The representative prices, import duties and additional import duties applicable to the imports of molasses covered by CN codes 1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 should be fixed in accordance with Article 34 and Article 40 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.

(8) Commission Implementing Regulation 2016/1733 (3) should therefore be repealed.

(9) Given the need to ensure that this measure applies as soon as possible after the updated data have been made available, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following its publication,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 The representative prices, the import duties and additional import duties applicable to the import of molasses covered by CN codes 1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1733 is repealed.

Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 29 September 2022. For the Commission, On behalf of the President, Wolfgang BURTSCHER Director-General Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

(1) OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671.

(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 of 30 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as regards trade with third countries in the sugar sector (OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 24).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1733 of 28 September 2016 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties applicable to molasses in the sugar sector from 1 October 2016 (OJ L 262, 29.9.2016, p. 27).