CELEX: 31996R1761
Language: en
Date: 1996-09-11 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1761/96 of 11 September 1996 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

No L 231 /4          [ EN !             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 12. 9 . 96
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1761 /96
                                                        of 11 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.
0    OJ No  L  206,  16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3)  OJ No  L  141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 September
 4   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, 11 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 1 422/95 (2)
           1703 10 00 (')                     8,16                              —
                                                                                                                0,05
           1703 90 00 (')                    11,20                              —
                                                                                                                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.