CELEX: 31997R1621
Language: en
Date: 1997-08-13 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1621/97 of 13 August 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

14 . 8.97             fENl                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 224/ 1 1
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1621/97
                                                           of 13 August 1997
                      fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                            the sugar sector
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           whereas offer prices which can be regarded as not rep­
                                                                         resentative of actual market trends must also be dis­
                                                                         regarded;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   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 'representative price', should be set in accordance                Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
  with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4);                        price for the product in question and the representative
  whereas that price should be fixed for the standard                    price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
  quality defined in Article 1 of the above Regulation;                  conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                         1422/95; whereas should the import duties be suspended
                                                                         pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
 Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­                specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
 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                tional import duties for the products in question as set
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from              out in the Annex to this Regulation;
 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
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                    Committee for Sugar,
 tunities 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-country markets and on sales concluded
 in international trade of which the Commission is aware,               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 either directly or through the Member States; whereas,
 under Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the
 Commission may for this purpose take an average of
                                                                                                 Article 1
 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
Whereas the information must be disregarded if the                      1 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex
goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable                    hereto .
quality or if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a
small quantity that is not representative of the market;
(')  OJ   No  L 177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                                        Article 2
(2)  OJ   No  L 206,  16. 8 . 1996, p. 43 .
0    OJ   No  L 141 , 24. 6 . 1995, p. 12.
 4   OJ   No  L 145,  27. 6 . 1968 , p. 12.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 August 1997.
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 13 August 1997.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                              Emma BONINO
                                                                                     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 (>)                     8,55                             —
                                                                                                                 0,00
            1703 90 00 (')                    12,68                             —
                                                                                                                 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.