CELEX: 31997R2257
Language: en
Date: 1997-11-13 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2257/97 of 13 November 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

14. 11.97               EN             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 311 /3
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2257/97
                                                     of 13 November 1997
                      fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                        the sugar sector
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        resentative of actual market trends must also be dis­
                                                                     regarded;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                        Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
                                                                     quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
                                                                     the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
  market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)            Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;
  No 1 599/96 (2),
                                                                     Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
                                                                     way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                     which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
  1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of              representative price is not available to the Commission
  application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector            and if the offer prices which are available and which
  and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in                appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
  particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                     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         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,
 Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­            specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
 lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,
 in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based           Whereas application of these provisions will have the
 on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the             effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
 world market established on the basis of the quotations            tional import duties for the products in question as set
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from          out in the Annex to this Regulation;
 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
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                Committee for Sugar,
 tunities on the woild 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
 in international trade of which the Commission is aware,           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 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
Whereas the information must be disregarded if the                  1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex
goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable                hereto.
quality or 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 rep­
                                                                                             Article 2
(')  OJ L  177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p. 4.
(2)  OJ L 206,  16. 8 . 1996, p. 43 .
0   OJ  L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 November
(4)  OJ L  145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                                 1997.
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 13 November 1997.
                                                                                       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 (')                     7,98                             —
                                                                                                               0,23
         1703 90 00 (')                     11,00                             —
                                                                                                               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.