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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1159/1999
of 2 June 1999
fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
the sugarsector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EEC)No1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of themarketinsugar(
1),aslastamendedbyCommissionRegu-
lation (EC) No 1148/98(2),
HavingregardtoCommissionRegulation(EC)No1422/
95of23June1995layingdowndetailedrulesofapplica-tion for imports of molasses in the sugar sector andamendingRegulation(EEC)No785/68(
3),andinpartic-
ular Articles 1 (2) and 3 (1) thereof,
WhereasRegulation(EC)No1422/95stipulatesthatthe
cifimportpriceformolasses,hereinafterreferredtoasthe‘representative price', should be set in accordance withCommission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68(
4); whereas
thatpriceshouldbefixedforthestandardqualitydefinedin Article 1 of the above Regulation;
Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu-
latedatthefrontiercrossingpointintotheCommunity,inthiscaseAmsterdam;whereasthatpricemustbebasedon the most favourable purchasing opportunities on theworldmarketestablishedonthebasisofthequotationsorpricesonthatmarketadjustedforanydeviationsfromthestandard quality; whereas the standard quality formolasses is defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;
Whereas,whenthemostfavourablepurchasingopportun-
ities on the world market are being established, accountmust be taken of all available information on offers onthe world market, on the prices recorded on importantthird-country markets and on sales concluded in inter-national trade of which the Commission is aware, eitherdirectly or through the Member States; whereas, underArticle 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis-sionmayforthispurposetakeanaverageofseveralpricesas a basis, provided that this average is representative ofactual market trends;
Whereas the information must be disregarded if the
goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketablequalityorifthepricequotedintheofferrelatesonlytoasmall quantity that is not representative of the market;
whereasofferpriceswhichcanberegardedasnotrepres-entativeofactualmarkettrendsmustalsobedisregarded;
Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending onthe quality of the molasses offered, be increased orreduced in the light of the results achieved by applyingArticle 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;
Whereasarepresentativepricemaybeleftunchangedby
way of exception for a limited period if the offer pricewhichservedasabasisforthepreviouscalculationoftherepresentative price is not available to the Commissionand if the offer prices which are available and whichappear not to be sufficiently representative of actualmarket trends would entail sudden and considerablechanges in the representative price;
Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
price for the product in question and the representativeprice,additionalimportdutiesshouldbefixedundertheconditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No1422/95;whereasshouldtheimportdutiesbesuspendedpursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
Whereas application of these provisions will have the
effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi-tional import duties for the products in question as setout in the Annex to this Regulation;
WhereasthemeasuresprovidedforinthisRegulationare
in accordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Sugar,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The representative prices and the additional duties
applyingtoimportsoftheproductsreferredtoinArticle1ofRegulation(EC)No1422/95arefixedintheAnnexhereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 June 1999.(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 12.
(4) OJ L 145, 27.6.1968, p. 12.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 2 June 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
fixing the representative prices and additional import duties applying to imports of molasses in
the sugarsector
(in EUR)
CNcodeAmountoftherepresentative
pricein100kgnetof
theproductinquestionAmountoftheadditional
dutyin100kgnetof
theproductinquestionAmountofthedutytobe
appliedtoimports
in100kgnetofthe
productinquestion
becauseofsuspensionas
referredtoinArticle5of
Regulation(EC)No1422/95(2)
17031000(1) 6,25 0,26 
17039000(1) 7,43 0,00 
(1) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Regulation (EEC) No 785/68.
(2) Thisamountreplaces,inaccordancewithArticle5ofRegulation(EC)No1422/95,therateoftheCommonCustomsTariff
duty fixed for these products.