CELEX: 31999R2053
Language: en
Date: 1999-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2053/1999 of 29 September 1999 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

30. 9. 1999            EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      L 255/17
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2053/1999
                                                          of 29 September 1999
               fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     whereas offer prices which can be regarded as not
                                                                                representative of actual market trends must also be
                                                                                disregarded;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (5)   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 (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                     reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
September 1999 on the common organization of the market in                      Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 785/68;
sugar (1),
                                                                          (6)   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 1422/95 of                       which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules of application for                      the representative price is not available to the Commis-
imports of molasses in the sugar sector and amending Regula-                    sion and if the offer prices which are available and
tion (EEC) No 785/68 (2), and in particular Articles 1 (2) and 3                which appear not to be sufficiently representative of
(1) thereof,                                                                    actual market trends would entail sudden and consider-
                                                                                able changes in the representative price;
(1)     Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1422/95 stipulates that the
        cif import price for molasses, hereinafter referred to as         (7)   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 (EC) No 785/68 (3);                          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, specific amounts for these duties should be
                                                                                fixed;
(2)     Whereas the representative price for molasses is calcu-
        lated at the frontier crossing point into the Community,
        in this case Amsterdam; whereas that price must be                (8)   Whereas application of these provisions will have the
        based on the most favourable purchasing opportunities                   effect of fixing the representative prices and the addi-
        on the world market established on the basis of the                     tional import duties for the products in question as set
        quotations or prices on that market adjusted for any                    out in the Annex to this Regulation;
        deviations from the standard quality; whereas the
        standard quality for molasses is defined in Regulation
        (EC) No 785/68;                                                   (9)   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                                are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                                Committee for Sugar,
(3)     Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor-
        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            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        in international trade of which the Commission is aware,
        either directly or through the Member States; whereas,
        under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) 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 1 of Regulation
(4)     Whereas the information must be disregarded if the                (EC) No 1422/95 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
        goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
        quality or if the price quoted in the offer relates only to
        a small quantity that is not representative of the market;
                                                                                                     Article 2
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 141, 24.6.1995, p. 12.
(3) OJ L 145, 27.6.1968, p. 12.                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 September 1999.
 ---pagebreak--- L 255/18           EN                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                                     30. 9. 1999
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                  Done at Brussels, 29 September 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
                                                                                                                                          (in EUR)
                                                                                                                 Amount of the duty to be
                                                                                                                     applied to imports
                                  Amount of the representative              Amount of the additional                in 100 kg net of the
                CN code                price in 100 kg net of                 duty in 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)                         6,16                                  0,29                                   —
         1703 90 00 (1)                         7,54                                  0,00                                   —
         (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.