CELEX: 31997R1319
Language: en
Date: 1997-07-09 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1319/97 of 9 July 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

10. 7. 97          1 EN I              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 182/ 1
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                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1319/97
                                                        of 9 July 1997
                 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in
                                                       the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       directly or through the Member States; whereas, under
                                                                  Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­
                                                                  sion may for this purpose take an average of several prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             as a basis, provided that this average is representative of
Community,                                                        actual market trends;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              Whereas the information must be disregarded if the goods
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                 concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           if the price quoted in the offer relates only to a small
No 1 599/96 (2),                                                  quantity that is not representative of the market; whereas
                                                                  offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                  actual market trends must also be disregarded;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No
1422/95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of
application for imports of molasses in the sugar sector           Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
and amending Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (3), and in               quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
particular Articles 1 (2) and 3 (1 ) thereof,                     the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
                                                                  reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
                                                                  Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the
cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as the     Whereas a representative price may be left unchanged by
'representative price', should be set in accordance with          way of exception for a limited period if the offer price
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4); whereas that
                                                                  which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the
price should be fixed for the standard quality defined in         representative price is not available to the Commission
Article 1 of the above Regulation ;
                                                                  and if the offer prices which are available and which
                                                                  appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu­           market trends would entail sudden and considerable
lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,          changes in the representative price;
in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based
on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the            Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
world market established on the basis of the quotations or        price for the product in question and the representative
prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the        price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
standard quality; whereas the standard quality for molasses       conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
is defined in Regulation (EEC) No 785/68;                         1422/95; whereas should the import duties be suspended
                                                                  pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1422/95,
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­             specific amounts for these duties should be fixed;
nities on the world market are being established, account
must be taken of all available information on offers on           Whereas application of these provisions will have the
the world market, on the prices recorded on important             effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
third-country markets and on sales concluded in interna­          tional import duties for the products in question as set
tional trade of which the Commission is aware, either             out in the Annex to this Regulation;
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
(2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.                             in accordance with the opinion of the Management
(J) OJ No L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.
H OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                                Committee for Sugar,
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                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 10 July 1997.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 9 July 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 (')                       8,35                             —
                                                                                                                 0,00
           1703 90 00 (')                      12,29                             —
                                                                                                                 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.