CELEX: 31996R1844
Language: en
Date: 1996-09-25
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1844/96 of 25 September 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

No L 245/4           EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 26 . 9 . 96
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1844/96
                                                      of 25 September 1996
                    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
                                                                    quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                 reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
   market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)          Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
   No 1599/96 (2),
                                                                    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 (3), 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 that           price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
  price should be fixed for the standard quality defined in         conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
 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,          Whereas application of these provisions will have the
 in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be based
                                                                   effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi­
 on the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the            tional import duties for the products in question as set
 world market established on the basis of the quotations or        out in the Annex to this Regulation;
 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 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 1
 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       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
(■) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
I1) OJ No L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 September
(3) OJ No L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.
h OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                                 1996 .
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 25 September 1996.
                                                                                      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 (')                     8,17                              —
                                                                                                                0,04
           1703 90 00 (')                    11,22                              —
                                                                                                                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.