CELEX: 31998R1379
Language: en
Date: 1998-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1379/98 of 30 June 1998 fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products in the sugar sector

L 187/6               EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1. 7. 98
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1379/98
                                                       of 30 June 1998
                  fixing the representative prices and additional import duties for certain products
                                                     in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        assumed not to be representative of actual market trends
                                                                   must also be disregarded;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
Community,                                                         is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
                                                                   fixed pursuant to Article 5 (1) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   784/68 must be added to or deducted from the offers
                                                                   taken into consideration in the case of white sugar;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
of 30 June 1981 on the common organisation of the                  provided for in Article 5 (1) (b) must be applied;
market in sugar (1), as last amended by Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1599/96 (2),
                                                                   Whereas the representative price is modified only if the
                                                                   variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail
                                                                   an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,5 per
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1423/               100 kilograms in relation to the representative price
95 of 23 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the              previously fixed;
import of products in the sugar sector other than
molasses (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 624/
98 (4), and in particular the second subparagraph of               Whereas, where there is a difference between the trigger
Article 1 (2) and Article 3 (1) thereof,                           price for the product in question and the representative
                                                                   price, additional import duties should be fixed under the
                                                                   conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                   1423/95;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 stipulates that the
cif import price for raw sugar and white sugar, hereinafter
known as the ‘representative price', should be set in              Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 (5),            the representative prices and additional import duties for
as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 260/                   the products in question should be as set out in the
96 (6); whereas that price should be fixed for the standard        Annex hereto;
qualities defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/
72 (7) and in Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 (8), as           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (9);                         in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                   Committee for Sugar,
Whereas, when the representative prices are being fixed,
the Commission must take account of all available infor-
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations on
the exchanges which are important for world trade in
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
sugar, on prices recorded on important third-country
markets, and on sales concluded in international trade of
which it has knowledge either directly or through the
agency of the Member States; whereas, however, pursuant
to Regulation (EEC) No 784/68, the Commission must                                          Article 1
disregard information if the goods concerned are not of
sound and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted           The representative prices and additional duties applicable
in an offer relates to a small quantity which is not repres-       to the import of the products referred to in Article 1 of
entative of the market; whereas offer prices which can be          Regulation (EC) No 1423/95 shall be as set out in the
                                                                   Annex hereto.
(1) OJ  L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ  L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ  L 141, 24. 6. 1995, p. 16.
(4) OJ  L 85, 20. 3. 1998, p. 5.
(5) OJ  L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 10.
(6) OJ  L 34, 13. 2. 1996, p. 16.                                                           Article 2
(7) OJ  L 94, 21. 4. 1972, p. 1.
(8) OJ  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
(9) OJ  L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1998.
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1998.
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                            Franz FISCHLER
                                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1998 fixing representative prices and the amounts of
         additional duties applicable to imports of white sugar, raw sugar and products covered by CN code
                                                                    1702 90 99
                                                                                                                              (ECU)
                                                             Amount of representative              Amount of additional duty
                          CN code                             prices per 100 kg net of                   per 100 kg net
                                                                 product concerned                   of product concerned
                        1701 11 10 (1)                                 17,89                                  7,36
                        1701 11 90 (1)                                 17,89                                 13,42
                        1701 12 10 (1)                                 17,89                                  7,17
                        1701 12 90 (1)                                 17,89                                 12,91
                        1701 91 00 (2)                                 22,40                                 14,73
                        1701 99 10 (2)                                 22,40                                  9,51
                        1701 99 90 (2)                                 22,40                                  9,51
                        1702 90 99 (3)                                   0,22                                 0,42
         (1) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 (OJ L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p.
             3).
         (2) For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 (OJ L 94, 21. 4. 1972, p. 1).
         (3) By 1 % sucrose content.