CELEX: 31999R1484
Language: en
Date: 1999-07-07
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1484/1999 of 7 July 1999 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

L 172/14               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                     8. 7. 1999
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1484/1999
                                                              of 7 July 1999
               fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     a small 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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           disregarded;
Community,
                                                                          (5)   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 of 30                      the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
June 1981 on the common organization of the market in                           reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
sugar (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No                     Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;
1148/98 (2),
                                                                          (6)   Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 of                       way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of application for                      which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
imports of molasses in the sugar sector and amending Regula-                    the representative price is not available to the Commis-
tion (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in particular Articles 1 (2) and 3                sion and if the offer prices which are available and
(1) thereof,                                                                    which appear not to be sufficiently representative of
                                                                                actual market trends would entail sudden and consider-
                                                                                able changes in the representative price;
(1)     Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the
        cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as         (7)   Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
        the ‘representative price’, should be set in accordance                 price for the product in question and the representative
        with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4);                         price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
        whereas that price should be fixed for the standard                     conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
        quality defined in 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
(2)     Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu-                 fixed;
        lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,
        in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be                (8)   Whereas application of these provisions will have the
        based on the most favourable purchasing opportunities                   effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi-
        on the world market established on the basis of the                     tional import duties for the products in question as set
        quotations or prices on that market adjusted for any                    out in the Annex to this Regulation;
        deviations from the standard quality; whereas the
        standard quality for molasses is defined in Regulation
        (EEC) No 785/68;                                                  (9)   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                                are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                Committee for Sugar,
(3)     Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor-
        tunities 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 third-country markets and on sales concluded            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        in international trade of which the Commission is aware,
        either directly or through the Member States; whereas,
        under Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the
        Commission may for this purpose take an average of
                                                                                                     Article 1
        several prices as a basis, provided that this average is
        representative of actual market trends;
                                                                          The representative prices and the additional duties applying to
                                                                          imports of the products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation
(4)     Whereas the information must be disregarded if the                (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
        goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
        quality or if the price quoted in the offer relates only to
(1) OJ L  177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.                                                                       Article 2
(2) OJ L  159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L  141, 24.6.1995, p. 12.
(4) OJ L  145, 27.6.1968, p. 12.                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 July 1999.
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                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                    Done at Brussels, 7 July 1999.
                                                                                                     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
                                                                                                                                            (in EUR)
                                                                                                                   Amount of the duty to be
                                                                                                                       applied to imports
                                    Amount of the representative              Amount of the additional                in 100 kg net of the
                  CN code                price in 100 kg net of                 duty in 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 (1)                         6,42                                  0,21                                   —
           1703 90 00 (1)                         7,53                                  0,00                                   —
           (1) 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.