CELEX: 31999R0006
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/1999 of 6 January 1999 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

7. 1. 1999           EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                      L 3/1
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                                           (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 6/1999
                                                     of 6 January 1999
                 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                       the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                  actual market trends;
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              Whereas the information must be disregarded if the
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                 goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
market in sugar (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           quality or if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a
No 1148/98 (2),                                                   small quantity that is not representative of the market;
                                                                  whereas offer prices which can be regarded as not rep-
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1422/              resentative of actual market trends must also be dis-
95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of applica-         regarded;
tion for imports of molasses in the sugar sector and
amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in partic-
ular Articles 1 (2) and 3 (1) thereof,                            Whereas, 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
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the            reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as the     Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;
‘representative price', should be set in accordance with
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4); whereas
that price should be fixed for the standard quality defined
in Article 1 of the above Regulation;                             Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
                                                                  way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
                                                                  which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu-           representative price is not available to the Commission
lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,          and if the offer prices which are available and which
in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based          appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the            market trends would entail sudden and considerable
world market established on the basis of the quotations or        changes in the representative price;
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 where there is a difference between the trigger
                                                                  price for the product in question and the representative
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportun-            price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
ities on the world market are being established, account          conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
must be taken of all available information on offers on           1422/95; whereas should the import duties be suspended
the world market, on the prices recorded on important             pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
third-country markets and on sales concluded in inter-            specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
national trade of which the Commission is aware, either
directly or through the Member States; whereas, under
                                                                  Whereas application of these provisions will have the
(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.                                   effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi-
(2) OJ L 159, 3. 6. 1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 141, 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                                 tional import duties for the products in question as set
(4) OJ L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                                 out in the Annex to this Regulation;
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           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion
           of the Management Committee for Sugar,
           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                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 7 January 1999.
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 6 January 1999.
                                                                                       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 EUR
                             Amount of the representative          Amount of the additional              per 100 kg net of the
            CN code         price in EUR per 100 kg net of       duty in EUR 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 (1)                      6,19                               0,28                                 —
      1703 90 00 ( )1                     7,04                               0,10                                 —
      (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.