CELEX: 32000R1411
Language: en
Date: 2000-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1411/2000 of 30 June 2000 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector

L 161/22               EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                       1.7.2000
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1411/2000
                                                           of 30 June 2000
               fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar
                                                                  sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    assumed not to be representative of actual market trends
                                                                               must also be disregarded.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    (3)   If information on sugar of the standard quality is to be
Community,                                                                     comparable, the price increases or reductions fixed
                                                                               pursuant to Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 784/
                                                                               68 must be added to or deducted from the offers taken
                                                                               into consideration in the case of white sugar. In the case
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                    of raw sugar, the corrective factors provided for in
September 1999 on the common organisation of the market in                     Article 5(1)(b) must be applied.
sugar (1),
                                                                         (4)   The representative price is modified only if the variation
                                                                               in the elements used to calculate it would entail an
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 of                      increase or a reduction of not less than 1,20 EUR/100
23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the import of                      kilograms in relation to the representative price previ-
products in the sugar sector other than molasses (2), as last                  ously fixed.
amended by Regulation (EC) No 624/98 (3), and in particular
the second subparagraph of Article 1(2) and Article 3(1)
thereof,                                                                 (5)   Where there is a difference between the trigger price for
                                                                               the product in question and the representative price,
                                                                               additional import duties should be fixed under the
                                                                               conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
Whereas:                                                                       1423/95.
                                                                         (6)   It follows from applying these provisions that the
(1)     Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 stipulates that the cif                     representative prices and additional import duties for the
        import price for raw sugar and white sugar, hereinafter                products in question should be as set out in the Annex
        known as the ‘representative price’, should be set in                  hereto.
        accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 784/
        68 (4), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
        260/96 (5). That price should be fixed for the standard          (7)   The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
        qualities defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/                  accordance with the opinion of the Management
        72 (6) and in Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 (7), as               Committee for Sugar,
        amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (8).
(2)     When the representative prices are being fixed, the
        Commission must take account of all available informa-
        tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        the exchanges which are important for world trade in
        sugar, on prices recorded on important third-country
        markets, and on sales concluded in international trade of
        which it has knowledge either directly or through the
        agency of the Member States. However, pursuant to                                            Article 1
        Regulation (EEC) No 784/68, the Commission must
        disregard information if the goods concerned are not of
        sound and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted         The representative prices and additional duties applicable to the
        in an offer relates to a small quantity which is not             import of the products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation
        representative of the market. Offer prices which can be          (EC) No 1423/95 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
(1) OJ L  252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L  141, 24.6.1995, p. 16.
(3) OJ L  85, 20.3.1998, p. 5.
(4) OJ L  145, 27.6.1968, p. 10.                                                                     Article 2
(5) OJ L  34, 13.2.1996, p. 16.
(6) OJ L  94, 21.4.1972, p. 1.
(7) OJ L  89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.
(8) OJ L  349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 2000.
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                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 2000.
                                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                                         ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 2000 fixing representative prices and the amounts of additional duties
                 applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and products covered by CN code 1702 90 99
                                                                                                                                   (EUR)
                                                                Amount of representative                Amount of additional duty
                            CN code                              prices per 100 kg net of                     per 100 kg net
                                                                    product concerned                      of product concerned
                        1701 11 10 (1)                                    22,72                                    4,94
                        1701 11 90 (1)                                    22,72                                   10,17
                        1701 12 10 (1)                                    22,72                                    4,75
                        1701 12 90 (1)                                    22,72                                    9,74
                        1701 91 00 (2)                                    24,68                                   13,13
                        1701 99 10 (2)                                    24,68                                    8,37
                        1701 99 90 (2)                                    24,68                                    8,37
                        1702 90 99 (3)                                      0,25                                   0,40
         (1) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 (OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3).
         (2) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 (OJ L 94, 21.4.1972, p. 1).
         (3) By 1 % sucrose content.