CELEX: 31997R1222
Language: en
Date: 1997-06-30
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1222/97 of 30 June 1997 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector

l . 7. 97            PEN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 173/3
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1222/97
                                                          of 30 June 1997
                    fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products
                                                        in the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         sentative of the market; whereas offer prices which can be
                                                                     assumed not to be representative of actual market trends
                                                                     must also be disregarded;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,                                                         Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
                                                                    is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
                                                                    fixed pursuant to Article 5 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    784/68 must be added to or deducted from the offers
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               taken into consideration in the case of white sugar;
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
 market in sugar ('), as last amended by Commission Regu­           provided for in Article 5 ( 1 ) (b) must be applied;
 lation (EC) No 1599/96 (2),
                                                                    Whereas the representative price is modified only if the
                                                                    variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No                     an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,5 per
 1423/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for              100 kilograms in relation to the representative price
 the import of products in the sugar sector other than              previously fixed;
 molasses f), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
 1143/97 (4), and in particular the second subparagraph of          Whereas, where there is a difference between the trigger
 Article 1 (2) and Article 3 ( 1 ) thereof,                         price for the product in question and the representative
                                                                    price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
                                                                    conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                     1423 /95;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 stipulates that the
 cif import price for raw sugar and white sugar, hereinafter
 known as the 'representative price', should be set in accor­       Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
dance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 (*),               the representative prices and additional import duties for
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 260/96 (6); whereas                the products in question should be as set out in the
that price should be fixed for the standard qualities               Annex hereto;
defined in Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 O and in Council
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (8), as amended by Regula­
tion (EC) No 3290/94 (9);                                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                    in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Sugar,
Whereas, when the representative prices are being fixed,
the Commission must take account of all available infor­
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations on
the exchanges which are important for world trade in                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
sugar, on prices recorded on important third-country
markets, and on sales concluded in international trade of
which it has knowledge either directly or through the
agency of the Member States; whereas, however, pursuant                                       Article 1
to Regulation (EEC) No 784/68, the Commission must
disregard information if the goods concerned are not of
sound and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted            The representative prices and additional duties applicable
in an offer relates to a small quantity which is not repre­         to the import of the products referred to in Article 1 of
                                                                    Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 shall be as set out in the
                                                                    Annex hereto .
  ') 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. 16.
 4)  OJ No L   165, 24. 6. 1997, p. 11 .
 s)  OJ No L   145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 10.                                                      Article 2
 ")  OJ No L  34, 13. 2. 1996, p. 16.
 *)  OJ No L  94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .
 8   OJ No L  89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
(9)  OJ No L  349, 31 . 12. 1994, p. 105.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1997.
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 30 June 1997.
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                            Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                      ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1997 fixing representative prices and the amounts of
           additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and products covered by CN
                                                                  code 1702 90 99
                                                                                                                                 (ECU)
                                                              Amount of representative              Amount of additional duty
                           CN code                            prices per 100 kg net of                    per 100 kg net
                                                                  product concerned                    of product concerned
                         1701 11 10 (')                                 24,00                                   4,30
                         1701 11 90 (')                                 24,00                                   9,53
                         1701 12 10 (')                                 24,00                                   4,11
                         1701 12 90 (')                                 24,00                                   9,10
                         1701 91 00 (2)                                 27,27                                 11,60
                         1701 99  10 (2)                                27,27                                   7,08
                         1701 99 90 (2)                                 27,27                                   7,08
                         1702 90 99 (3)                                  0,27                                   0,38
          (') For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (OJ No L 89, 10 . 4.
              1968, p. 3).
          (2) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 (OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 ).
          P) By 1 % sucrose content.