CELEX: 31996R1195
Language: en
Date: 1996-06-28 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1195/96 of 28 June 1996 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector

29 . 6 . 96              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 161 /3
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1195/96
                                                           of 28 June 1996
                   fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products
                                                         in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          sentative of the market; whereas offer prices which can be
                                                                     assumed not to be representative of actual market trends
                                                                     must also be disregarded;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                           Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
                                                                     is to be 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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 taken into consideration in the case of white sugar,
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                    whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Commission Regu­             provided for in Article 5 (1 ) (b) must be applied;
lation (EC) No 1126/95 (2),
                                                                     Whereas the representative price is modified only if the
                                                                     variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                       an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,5 per
1423/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for               100 kilograms in relation to the representative price
the import of products in the sugar sector other than                previously fixed;
molasses (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1 127/96 (4), and in particular the second subparagraph of           Whereas, where there is a difference between the trigger
Article 1 (2) and Article 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                           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
                                                                     1423/95;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 stipulates that the
cif import price for raw sugar and white sugar, hereinafter
known as the 'representative price', should be set in accor­         Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
dance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 (■5),               the representative prices and additional import duties for
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 260/96 (6); whereas                 the products in question should be as set out in the
that price should be fixed for the standard qualities                Annex hereto;
defined in Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 f) and in Council
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (8), as amended by Regula­               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
tion (EC) No 3290/94 O;
                                                                     in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                     Committee for Sugar,
Whereas, when the representative prices are being fixed,
the Commission must take account of all available infor­
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations on
the exchanges which are important for world trade in                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
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; whereas, however, pursuant                                       Article 1
to 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
in an offer relates to a small quantity which is not repre­          to the import of the products referred to in Article 1 of
                                                                     Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 shall be as set out in the
                                                                     Annex hereto .
 ')  OJ  No L  177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 *)  OJ  No L  150,  25. 6. 1996, p. 3.
 3)  OJ  No L  141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 16.
 ♦)  OJ  No L  150,  25. 6. 1996, p. 12.
 ^   OJ  No L  145,  27. 6. 1968, p. 10.                                                      Article 2
 <•) OJ No L 34, 13. 2. 1996, p. 16.
 7) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .
 8) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
 ») OJ No L 349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1996.
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 28 June 1996.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                             Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                      Member of the Commission
                                                                       ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1996 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
                                                                                                                                   (ECU)
                                                               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 (')                                 23,51                                   4,54
                          1701 11 90 (')                                 23,51                                   9,78
                           1701 1210 0                                   23,51                                   4,35
                           1701 12 90 0                                  23,51                                   9,35
                           1701 91 00 0                                  31,72                                   9,37
                           1701 99 10 0                                  31,72                                   4,85
                           1701 99 90 0                                  31,72                                   4,85
                           1702 90 99 0                                    0,32                                  0,34
            (') For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (OJ No 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 No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 ).
            P) By 1 % sucrose content