CELEX: 31995R2693
Language: en
Date: 1995-11-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2693/95 of 22 November 1995 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

23. 11 . 95          EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 280/ 11
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2693/95
                                                   of 22 November 1995
                  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
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
                                                                  the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
No 1101 /95 (2),                                                  Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
                                                                  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 (*), 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               price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
that price should be fixed for the standard quality defined      conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
in 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,
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
worlid market established on the basis of the quotations or      tional import duties for the products in question as set
prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the       out in the Annex to this Regulation ;
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 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­                                       Article 1
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
H OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 110, 17. 5. 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 November
V) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                              1995.
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                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 22 November 1995.
                                                                                      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      in the event of suspension as
                                                                                                    referred to in Article 5 of
                                                                                                  Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 (2)
            L703 10 00 («)                     9,26                             —                               0,00
            1703 90 00 (')                     9,86                             —                              0,00
           (') For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68.
           C) This amount replaces, in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/9J, the rate of the Common Customs
               Tariff duty fixed for these products.