CELEX: 31997R1589
Language: en
Date: 1997-08-06 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1589/97 of 6 August 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

No L 215/20          EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7 . 8 . 97
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1589/97
                                                       of 6 August 1997
                   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 rep­
                                                                    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
  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 1 599/96 (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 'representative price', should be set in accordance           Whereas where there is a difference between the trigger
 with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 (4);                   price for the product in question and the representative
 whereas that price should be fixed for the standard               price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
 quality defined in Article 1 of the above Regulation;             conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                    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;
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                                        Article 2
(2) OJ No L 206, 16. 8 . 1996, p. 43.
0   OJ No L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.
 4  OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 August 1997.
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               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 6 August 1997.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                        Monika WULF-MATHIES
                                                                                     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
                C N code         price in ECU per 1 00 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 (')                     8,59                              —
                                                                                                                0,00
           1703 90 00 (')                    12,83                              —
                                                                                                                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.