CELEX: 31997R1723
Language: en
Date: 1997-09-03 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1723/97 of 3 September 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

4 . 9 . 97               I EN I           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 242/47
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1723/97
                                                        of 3 September 1997
                        fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                          the sugar sector
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          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
                                                                       the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
                                                                       reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
                                                                       Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
  market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
  No 1 599/96 (2),
                                                                       Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
                                                                       way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
  Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                       which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
  1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of                representative price is not available to the Commission
  application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector              and if the offer prices which are available and which
  and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in                  appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
  particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                       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            Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
 the 'representative price', should be set in accordance               price for the product in question and the representative
 with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4);                       price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
 whereas that price should be fixed for the standard                   conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
 quality defined 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,
 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;
whereas offer prices which can be regarded as not rep­
                                                                                               Article 2
(')  OJ    L 177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2)  OJ    L 206,  16. 8 . 1996, p. 43 .
(3)  OJ    L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 September
 4)  OJ    L 145,  27. 6. 1968 , p. 12.                               1997 .
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 September 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 (')                     8,29                             —
                                                                                                                 0,00
          1703 90 00 (')                    12,10                             —
                                                                                                                 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.