CELEX: 31996R0010
Language: en
Date: 1996-01-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 10/96 of 4 January 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

5. 1 . 96          I EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 3/ 1
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                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 10/96
                                                      of 4 January 1996
                   fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                       the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods
                                                                  concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small
 Community,                                                       quantity that is not representative of the market ; whereas
                                                                  offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
 No 1 101 /95 (2),                                                quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
                                                                  the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                   reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
 1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of            Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector           Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in               way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                    which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
                                                                  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
in Article 1 of the above Regulation ;                            Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
                                                                  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        Whereas application of these provisions will have the
standard quality ; whereas the standard quality for               effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
molasses is defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;               tional import duties for the products in question as set
                                                                  out in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
nities on the world market are being established, account         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
must be taken of all available information on offers on           in accordance with the opinion of the Management
the world market, on the prices recorded on important             Committee for Sugar,
third-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­
tional trade of which the Commission is aware, either             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
directly or through the Member States ; whereas, under
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­                                       Article 1
sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices       The representative prices and the additional duties
as a basis, provided that this average is representative of       applying to imports of the products referred to in Article
actual market trends ;                                            1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex
                                                                  hereto.
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 110, 17. 5. 1995, p. 1 .                                                       Article 2
(3) OJ No L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.
H OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 January 1996.
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 4 January 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      in the event of suspension as
                                                                                                   referred to in Article 5 of
                                                                                                 Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 (2)
         1703 10 00 (')                      9,74                              —
                                                                                                               0,00
          1703 90 00 (»)                    10,52                              —
                                                                                                               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.