CELEX: 31997R0294
Language: en
Date: 1997-02-19 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 294/97 of 19 February 1997 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector

20 . 2 . 97            I EN I              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 50/3
                                             COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 294/97
                                                            of 19 February 1997
                       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
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                   quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                      the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
   market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)                reduced in the light of the results achieved by applying
   No 1 599/96 (2),                                                       Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
                                                                         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,
 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 or             tional import duties for the products in question as set
 prices on that market adjusted for any deviations from the             out in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 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 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commis­                                             Article 1
 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.
(2)  OJ   No   L 206,  16. 8 . 1996, p. 43 .
0    OJ   No   L 141 , 24. 6. 1995, p. 12.                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 February
(4)  OJ   No   L 145,  27. 6. 1968 , p. 12.                             1997 .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 19 February 1997.
                                                                                       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 (')                       8,36                            —
                                                                                                                  0,00
            1703 90 00 (')                      12,20                            —
                                                                                                                  0,00
           (') For the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of amended Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 .
           (-) 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.