CELEX: 31996R2262
Language: en
Date: 1996-11-27 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2262/96 of 27 November 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

No L 306/ 12            EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 11 . 96
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2262/96
                                                       of 27 November 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,             Whereas application of these provisions will have the
in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based             effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the               tional import duties for the products in question as set
world market established on the basis of the quotations or
                                                                     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 1
Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the Commis­
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 28 November
 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 , 27 November 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
                                                                                                       Artici: n : 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 (')                       7,53                            0,00                                —
              1703 90 00 (')                     11,21                                                               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.