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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 401/2000
of 23 February 2000
fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation(EC)No2038/1999of13
September1999onthecommonorganizationofthemarketinsugar(
1),
HavingregardtoCommissionRegulation(EC)No1422/95of
23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of application forimportsofmolassesinthesugarsectorandamendingRegula-tion (EEC) No 785/68(
2), and in particular Articles 1(2) and
3(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the cif
importpriceformolasses,hereinafterreferredtoasthe‘representative price’, should be set in accordance withCommissionRegulation(EEC)No785/68(
3).Thatprice
should be fixed for the standard quality defined inArticle 1 of the above Regulation.
(2)TherepresentativepriceformolassesiscalculatedatthefrontiercrossingpointintotheCommunity,inthiscaseAmsterdam; that price must be based on the mostfavourable purchasing opportunities on the worldmarket established on the basis of the quotations orprices on that market adjusted for any deviations fromthestandardquality.Thestandardqualityformolassesisdefined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68.
(3)Whenthemostfavourablepurchasingopportunitiesontheworldmarketarebeingestablished,accountmustbetakenofallavailableinformationonoffersontheworldmarket, on the prices recorded on important third-countrymarketsandonsalesconcludedininternationaltradeofwhichtheCommissionisaware,eitherdirectlyorthroughtheMemberStates.UnderArticle7ofRegu-lation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for thispurpose take an average of several prices as a basis,provided that this average is representative of actualmarket trends.
(4)The information must be disregarded if the goodsconcernedarenotofsoundandfairmarketablequalityorifthepricequotedintheofferrelatesonlytoasmallquantity that is not representative of the market. Offer
prices which can be regarded as not representative ofactual market trends must also be disregarded.
(5)Ifinformationonmolassesofthestandardqualityistobecomparable,pricesmust,dependingonthequalityofthemolassesoffered,beincreasedorreducedinthelightoftheresultsachievedbyapplyingArticle6ofRegula-tion (EEC) No 785/68.
(6)Arepresentativepricemaybeleftunchangedbywayofexception for a limited period if the offer price whichserved as a basis for the previous calculation of therepresentative 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.
(7)Wherethereisadifferencebetweenthetriggerpriceforthe product in question and the representative price,additional import duties should be fixed under theconditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No1422/95. Should the import duties be suspendedpursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,specific amounts for these duties should be fixed.
(8)Application of these provisions will have the effect offixingtherepresentativepricesandtheadditionalimportduties for the products in question as set out in theAnnex to this Regulation.
(9)The measures provided for in this Regulation are inaccordance with the opinion of the ManagementCommittee for Sugar,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Therepresentativepricesandtheadditionaldutiesapplyingto
importsoftheproductsreferredtoinArticle1ofRegulation(EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 February 2000.(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 12.
(3) OJ L 145, 27.6.1968, p. 12.
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ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinallMemberStates.Done at Brussels, 23 February 2000.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission
7,18Amountoftherepresentative
pricein100 kgnetof
theproductinquestion
17031000(1)CNcode
0,00 7,38Amountofthedutytobe
appliedtoimports
in100 kgnetofthe
productinquestion
becauseofsuspensionas
referredtoinArticle5of
Regulation(EC)No1422/95(2)
—
(1) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Regulation (EEC) No 785/68.
(2) Thisamountreplaces,inaccordancewithArticle5ofRegulation(EC)No1422/95,therateoftheCommonCustomsTariffdutyfixed
for these products.17039000(1)0,00 —Amountoftheadditional
dutyin100 kgnetof
theproductinquestionANNEX
fixing the representative prices and additional import duties applying to imports of molasses in the sugar sector
(in EUR)