CELEX: 31997R1362
Language: en
Date: 1997-07-16 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1362/97 of 16 July 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

17. 7. 97        1 EN I              Jthcial journal or the turopean communities                               N W    1 OU / 1
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                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1362/97
                                                        of 16 July 1997
                  [ixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                       the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION Ob THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      directly or through the Member states; whereas, under
                                                                  Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­
                                                                  sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            as a basis, provided that this average is representative of
 Community,                                                       actual market trends;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small
 No 1 599/96 (2),                                                 quantity that is not representative of the market; whereas
                                                                  Dffer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                  ictual market trends must also be disregarded;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
 1422/95 of 23 June 1 995 laying down detailed rules of
application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector           Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in               quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                    :he quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
                                                                  •educed in the light of the results achieved by applying
                                                                  \rticle 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
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 with          Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4); whereas that           vay of exception for a limited period if the offer price
price should be fixed for the standard quality defined in         vhich served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
Article 1 of the above Regulation;                                 epresentative price is not available to the Commission
                                                                  ind if the offer prices which are available and which
                                                                  ippear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­           narket trends would entail sudden and considerable
lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,          :hanges in the representative price;
in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based
Dn the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the            Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
world market established on the basis of the quotations or        >rice for the product in question and the representative
prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the        mce, additional import duties should be fixed under the
standard quality; whereas the standard quality for molasses       :onditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
 s defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;                         422/95; whereas should the import duties be suspended
                                                                  pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­              pecific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
lities on the world market are being established, account
must be taken of all available information on offers on           Whereas application of these provisions will have the
:he world market, on the prices recorded on important              ffect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
:hird-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­          ional import duties for the products in question as set
:iunal trade of which the Commission is aware, either             >ut in the Annex to this Regulation;
 ') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.
3) OJ No L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                              n accordance with the opinion of the Management
4) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 12.                              Committee for Sugar,
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                HAS ADOKlbD THlb KbUULAllUM :
                                                                  Article 1
                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.
                                                                  Article 2
                This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 July 1997.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 July 1997.
                                                                                      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 (')                      8,47                              —
                                                                                                                 0,00
           1703 90 00 (')                     12,52                              —
                                                                                                                 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.