CELEX: 31996R2171
Language: en
Date: 1996-11-13
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2171/96 of 13 November 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

14. 11 . 96             EN 1              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 291 / 1
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                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2171/96
                                                       of 13 November 1996
                    fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                          the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          directly or through the Member States; whereas, under
                                                                      Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­
                                                                      sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                as a basis, provided that this average is representative of
 Community,                                                           actual market trends;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                    concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or
 market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)              if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small
 No 1 599/96 (2),                                                     quantity that is not representative of the market; whereas
                                                                      offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                      actual market trends must also be disregarded;
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
 1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of
 application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector              Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
 and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in                  quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
 particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                       the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
                                                                      reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
                                                                      Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the
cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as the
'representative price', should be set in accordance with              Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4); whereas that               way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
 price should be fixed for the standard quality defined in            which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
Article 1 of the above Regulation;                                    representative price is not available to the Commission
                                                                      and if the offer prices which are available and which
                                                                      appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­               market trends would entail sudden and considerable
lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,              changes in the representative price;
in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based
on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the                Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
world market established on the basis of the quotations or            price for the product in question and the representative
 prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the           price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
standard quality; whereas the standard quality for molasses           conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
is defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;                            1422/95; whereas should the import duties be suspended
                                                                      pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­                 specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
nities on the world market are being established, account
must be taken of all available information on offers on               Whereas application of these provisions will have the
the world market, on the prices recorded on important                 effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
third-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­              tional import duties for the products in question as set
tional trade of which the Commission is aware, either                 out in the Annex to this Regulation;
(') OJ  No  L 177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
(2  OJ  No  L 206,   16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.
0   OJ  No  L 141 ,  24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(4  OJ  No  L 145,   27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                              Committee for Sugar,
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                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                  Article 1
                The representative prices and the additional duties applying to imports of the products
                referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
                                                                  Article 2
                This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 November 1996 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 13 November 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 1 422/95 (2)
            1703 10 00 (»)                       7,43                           0,00                               —
            1703 90 00 (')                      11,06                             —
                                                                                                                  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.