CELEX: 31996R1805
Language: en
Date: 1996-09-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1805/96 of 18 September 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

No L 237/4            EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19 . 9 . 96
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1805/96
                                                       of 18 September 1 996
                     fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                          the sugar sector
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small
                                                                      quantity that is not representative of the market; whereas
                                                                      offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              actual market trends must also be disregarded;
   Community,
                                                                     Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
                                                                     quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
   market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
                                                                     Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
   No 1 599/96 {%
                                                                     Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
   Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                    way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
   1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of             which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
  application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector            representative price is not available to the Commission
  and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in                and if the offer prices which are available and which
  particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                     appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
                                                                     market    trends  would  entail  sudden   and  considerable
                                                                     changes in the representative price;
  Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the
  cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as the      Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
  'representative price', should be set in accordance with           price for the product in question and the representative
  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4); whereas that            price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
  price should be fixed for the standard quality defined in          conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
 Article 1 of the above Regulation;                                  1422/95; whereas should the import duties be suspended
                                                                     pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
                                                                    specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
 Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­
 lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,           Whereas application of these provisions will have the
 in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based
                                                                    effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
 on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the             tional import duties for the products in question as set
 world market established on the basis of the quotations or         out in the Annex to this Regulation;
 prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the
 standard quality, whereas the standard quality for molasses
 is defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                    in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Sugar,
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
 nities on the world market are being established, account
 must be taken of all available information on offers on
 the world market, on the prices recorded on important              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 third-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­
 tional trade of which the Commission is aware, either
 directly or through the Member States; whereas, under
                                                                                              Article 1
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­
 sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices
 as a basis, provided that this average is representative of        The representative prices and the additional duties
 actual market trends;                                              applying to imports of the products referred to in Article
                                                                    1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex
                                                                    hereto .
Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods
concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or
                                                                                              Article 2
(>)  OJ No  L  177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2)  OJ No  L  206,  16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3)  OJ No  L  141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 September
 4)  OJ No  L  145,  27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                            1996 .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                  Done at Brussels, 18 September 1996.
                                                                                        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 sugar sector
                                                                                                      Amount of the duty to be
                                                                                                     applied to imports in ECU
                                    Amount of the representative      Amount of the additional          per 100 kg net of the
                   CN code          price in ECU per 100 kg net of   duty in ECU per 100 kg net of        product in question
                                       the product in question         the product in question         because of suspension as
                                                                                                      referred to in Article 5 of
                                                                                                    Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 (2)
             1703 10 00 (>)                      8,17                             —
                                                                                                                  0,04
             1703 90 00 (')                     11,23                             —
                                                                                                                 0,00
            (') For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 .
            (2) This amount replaces, in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95, the rate of the Common Customs
                Tariff duty fixed for these products.