CELEX: 31996R2410
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2410/96 of 18 December 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

No L 329/6           HENI               Official Journal of the European Communities                                19 . 12. 96
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2410/96
                                                         of 18 December 1996
                       fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                            the sugar sector
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          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 representative of
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               actual market trends must also be disregarded;
    Community,
                                                                        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                the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
    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
    Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                      way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
    1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of               which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
   application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector              representative price is not available to the Commission
   and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in                  and if the offer prices which are available and which
   particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                       appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
                                                                        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 the       Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
   'representative price', should be set in accordance with            price for the product in question and the representative
   Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4); whereas that             price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
   price should be fixed for the standard quality defined in           conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
  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 fixed;
  Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­
  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 or           tional import duties for the products in question as set
                                                                       out in the Annex to this Regulation;
  prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from 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
                                                                      Committee for Sugar,
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
 nities 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                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 third-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­
 tional 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 Commis­                                           Article 1
 sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices
 as a basis, provided that this average is representative of          The representative prices and the additional duties
 actual market trends;                                                applying to imports of the products referred to in Article
                                                                      1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex
                                                                      hereto .
Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods
concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or
                                                                                                Article 2
(')  OJ  No  L  177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2)  OJ  No  L  206,  16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3)  OJ  No  L  141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 December
 4   OJ  No  L  145,  27. 6. 1968 , p. 12.                            1996 .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 18 December 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         because of suspension as
                                                                                                     referred to in Article 5 of
                                                                                                   Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 (2)
            1703 10 00 (')                      7,32                            0,00                             —
            1703 90 00 (')                     11,38                             —
                                                                                                                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.