Commission Regulation (EC) No 79/2003 of 17 January 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 laying down detailed implementing rules for the import of molasses in the sugar sector
Date: 2003-01-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: customs regulations, import, import policy, molasses, sugar product

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Official Journal of the European Communities

18.1.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 79/2003

of 17 January 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 laying down detailed implementing rules for the import of
molasses in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19
June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 680/2002 (2), and in particular Article 24(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 (3) lays down that represen-
tative prices on the world market, on the basis of which
the additional duties on imports of molasses are fixed,
are normally fixed every week in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1260/2001.

The current system involves fixing representative prices
and additional duties every week, even when the
amounts are unchanged or vary only slightly. In order to
simplify and clarify the fixing of representative prices
and additional duties, provision should be made for
representative prices and additional duties to be fixed
every two weeks and for their amendment by the
Commission during this period subject to certain precise
conditions.

Article 1

In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95, paragraphs 1 and
2 are replaced by the following:

The additional duties referred to in Article 24(1) of
‘1.
Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 shall be applied to molasses
falling within CN codes 1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00.

2.
For the purposes of this Regulation, representative
prices for molasses on the world market or on the Commu-
nity import market as referred to in Article 24(3) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1260/2001 shall mean the cif prices for
those products established and fixed by the Commission in
accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 785/68.

Those prices shall be fixed every two weeks in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 42(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1260/2001. The Commission may amend them
during that two-week period every Thursday where the
information available to it indicates a change in the repre-
sentative prices previously fixed of at least EUR 0,5 per
100 kilograms. Member States shall send the Commission
by Wednesday of each week the information referred to in
Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 at their disposal.’

Article 2

(3)

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

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 January 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 12.