Commission Regulation (EC) No 945/2008 of 25 September 2008 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector for the 2008/09 marketing year
Date: 2008-09-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, import, raw sugar, representative price, sugar product, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 945/2008

of 25 September 2008

fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector
for the 2008/09 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri­
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri­
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular
Article 143 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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 (2),
lays down
that
import prices for white sugar and raw
sugar are to be considered the representative prices.
Those prices are fixed for the standard qualities defined
in points II and III respectively of Annex IV to Regulation
(EC) No 1234/2007.

the cif

For the purposes of fixing those representative prices,
account must be taken of all the information provided
for in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, except
in the cases provided for in Article 24 of that Regulation.

For the purposes of adjusting prices not relating to the
standard quality, the price increases or reductions referred
to in Article 26(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006

should be applied to the offers taken into consideration
in the case of white sugar. In the case of raw sugar, the
that
corrective factors provided for
paragraph should be applied.

in point

(b) of

(4) Where there is a difference between the trigger price for
the product concerned and the representative price, ad­
ditional import duties should be fixed under the terms
laid down in Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.

(5)

(6)

The representative prices and additional import duties for
the products concerned should be fixed in accordance
with Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The representative prices and the additional duties applying to
imports of the products referred to in Article 36 of Regulation
(EC) No 951/2006 are fixed in the Annex hereto.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October 2008.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 25 September 2008.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 24.

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ANNEX

Representative prices and additional import duties applicable to white sugar, raw sugar and products covered by
CN code 1702 90 99 from 1 October 2008

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)

Representative price per 100 kg net of the
product concerned

Additional duty per 100 kg net of the
product concerned

(EUR)

24,35

24,35

24,35

24,35

26,72

26,72

26,72

0,27

4,12

9,36

3,93

8,93

11,87

7,35

7,35

0,38

(1) For the standard quality as defined in point III of Annex IV to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1).
(2) For the standard quality defined in point II of Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.
(3) Per 1 % sucrose content.