CELEX: 31995R2118
Language: en
Date: 1995-09-06 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2118/95 of 6 September 1995 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

7. 9 . 95             I EN 1              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 212/ 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2118 /95
                                                         of 6 September 1995
                     fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                           the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           quantity that is not representative of the market ; whereas
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
 Community,                                                            actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                  Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                     quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
 market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)               the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 No 1 101 /95 (2),                                                     reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                        Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
  1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of                Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
 application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector               way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
 and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in                   which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
 particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                        representative price is not available to the Commission
 Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the                and if the offer prices which are available and which
 cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as the         appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
 'representative price', should be set in accordance with              market trends would entail sudden and considerable
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4) ; whereas                   changes in the representative price ;
 that price should be fixed for the standard quality defined           Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
 in Article 1 of the above Regulation ;                                price for the product in question and the representative
Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­                price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
 lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,              conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
 in this case Amsterdam ; whereas that price must be based             1422/95 ; whereas should the import duties be suspended
on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the                 pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
world market established on the basis of the quotations or            specific amounts for these duties should be fixed ;
 prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the
standard quality ; whereas the standard quality for                   Whereas application of these provisions will have the
molasses is defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;                   effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
                                                                      tional import duties for the products in question as set
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­                 out in the Annex to this Regulation ;
nities on the world market are being established, account
must be taken of all available information on offers on               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
the world market, on the prices recorded on important                  in accordance with the opinion of the Management
third-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­               Committee for Sugar,
tional trade of which the Commission is aware, either
directly or through the Member States ; whereas, under                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­
sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices
                                                                                                Article 1
as a basis, provided that this average is representative of
actual market trends ;                                                The representative prices and the additional duties
Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods              applying to imports of the products referred to in Article
concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or              1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex
if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small              hereto .
                                                                                                Article 2
(') OJ   No L  177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ   No L  110,   17. 5. 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No L  141 ,  24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 September
 4) OJ   No L  145,   27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                              1995.
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 6 September 1995.
                                                                                      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      in the event of suspension as
                                                                                                      referred to in Article 5 of
                                                                                                    Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 (J)
           1703 10 00 (')                      8,87                             —                                 0,00
           1703 90 00 (')                      9,59                             —                                 0,00
           (') For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of 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.