CELEX: 32000R0062
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 62/2000 of 12 January 2000 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

13. 1. 2000            EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                          L 9/3
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 62/2000
                                                            of 12 January 2000
               fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     quantity that is not representative of the market; offer
                                                                                prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                                actual market trends must also be disregarded;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                          (5)   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 reduced in the light
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13
                                                                                of the results achieved by applying Article 6 of Regula-
September 1999 on the common organization of the market in
                                                                                tion (EEC) No 785/68;
sugar (1),
                                                                          (6)   a representative price may be left unchanged by way of
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 of                       exception for a limited period if the offer price which
23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of application for                      served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
imports of molasses in the sugar sector and amending Regula-                    representative price is not available to the Commission
tion (EEC) No 785/68 (2), and in particular Articles 1(2) and                   and if the offer prices which are available and which
3(1) thereof,                                                                   appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
                                                                                market trends would entail sudden and considerable
                                                                                changes in the representative price;
Whereas:
                                                                          (7)   where there is a difference between the trigger price for
                                                                                the product in question and the representative price,
(1)     Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the cif
                                                                                additional import duties should be fixed under the
        import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as the
                                                                                conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
        ‘representative price’, should be set in accordance with
                                                                                1422/95; should the import duties be suspended
        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3); that price
                                                                                pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
        should be fixed for the standard quality defined in
                                                                                specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
        Article 1 of the above Regulation;
                                                                          (8)   application of these provisions will have the effect of
(2)     the representative price for molasses is calculated at the              fixing the representative prices and the additional import
        frontier crossing point into the Community, in this case                duties for the products in question as set out in the
        Amsterdam; that price must be based on the most                         Annex to this Regulation;
        favourable purchasing opportunities on the world
        market established on the basis of the quotations or
        prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from            (9)   the measures provided for in this Regulation are in
        the standard quality; the standard quality for molasses is              accordance with the opinion of the Management
        defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;                                  Committee for Sugar,
(3)     when the most favourable purchasing opportunities 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 third-                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        country markets and on sales concluded in international
        trade of which the Commission is aware, either directly
        or through the Member States; under Article 7 of Regu-
        lation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for this                                           Article 1
        purpose take an average of 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 1 of Regulation
                                                                          (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
(4)     the information must be disregarded if the goods
        concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality
        or if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small
                                                                                                      Article 2
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 12.
(3) OJ L 145, 27.6.1968, p. 12.                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 January 2000.
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
               Done at Brussels, 12 January 2000.
                                                                                                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
                                                                                                                                       (in EUR)
                                                                                                              Amount of the duty to be
                                                                                                                  applied to imports
                               Amount of the representative              Amount of the additional                in 100 kg net of the
             CN code                price in 100 kg net of                 duty in 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 (1)                         6,63                                  0,14                                   —
      1703 90 00 (1)                         7,07                                  0,09                                   —
      (1) 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.