Commission Regulation (EC) No 1379/98 of 30 June 1998 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector
Date: 1998-06-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: customs regulations, import, import policy, raw sugar, sugar product, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1379/98

of 30 June 1998

fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products
in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

assumed not to be representative of actual market trends
must also be disregarded;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organisation of the
market in sugar (1), as last amended by Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1599/96 (2),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1423/
95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the
import of products
than
in the sugar
molasses (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 624/
98 (4), and in particular
the second subparagraph of
Article 1 (2) and Article 3 (1) thereof,

sector other

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 stipulates that the
cif import price for raw sugar and white sugar, hereinafter
known as the ‘representative price', should be set
in
accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 (5),
as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 260/
96 (6); whereas that price should be fixed for the standard
qualities defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/
72 (7) and in Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 (8), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (9);

Whereas, when the representative prices are being fixed,
the Commission must take account of all available infor-
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations on
the exchanges which are important for world trade in
sugar, on prices recorded on important
third-country
markets, and on sales concluded in international trade of
which it has knowledge either directly or through the
agency of the Member States; whereas, however, pursuant
to Regulation (EEC) No 784/68, the Commission must
disregard information if the goods concerned are not of
sound and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted
in an offer relates to a small quantity which is not repres-
entative of the market; whereas offer prices which can be

(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 141, 24. 6. 1995, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 85, 20. 3. 1998, p. 5.
(5) OJ L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 10.
(6) OJ L 34, 13. 2. 1996, p. 16.
(7) OJ L 94, 21. 4. 1972, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
(9) OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.

Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
fixed pursuant to Article 5 (1) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
784/68 must be added to or deducted from the offers
taken into consideration in the case of white sugar;
whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
provided for in Article 5 (1)

(b) must be applied;

Whereas the representative price is modified only if the
variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail
an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,5 per
100 kilograms in relation to the representative price
previously fixed;

Whereas, where there is a difference between the trigger
price for the product in question and the representative
price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
1423/95;

Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
the representative prices and additional import duties for
the products in question should be as set out in the
Annex hereto;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sugar,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The representative prices and additional duties applicable
to the import of the products referred to in Article 1 of
Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 shall be as set out in the
Annex hereto.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1998.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1998.

For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1998 fixing representative prices and the amounts of
additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and products covered by CN code
1702 90 99

CN code

1701 11 10 (1)
1701 11 90 (1)
1701 12 10 (1)
1701 12 90 (1)
1701 91 00 (2)
1701 99 10 (2)
1701 99 90 (2)
1702 90 99 (3)

Amount of representative
prices per 100 kg net of
product concerned

Amount of additional duty
per 100 kg net
of product concerned

(ECU)

17,89
17,89
17,89
17,89
22,40
22,40
22,40
0,22

7,36
13,42
7,17
12,91
14,73
9,51
9,51
0,42

(1) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 (OJ L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p.

3).

(2) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 (OJ L 94, 21. 4. 1972, p. 1).

(3) By 1 % sucrose content.