EC COMMISSION REJECTS SUGAR THREATS - SOURCES The European Community Commission has told EC member states that it is not prepared to discuss EC sugar prices while sugar traders threaten to make a huge sale into intervention stocks to protest against its policies, Commission sources said. "Our position is that we are not willing to discuss the problems of market prices at a time when traders are making threats," one source said. The sources said the Commission's view was made clear at a meeting of its sugar management committee today. They said French, West German and Dutch officials had informed the committee that traders in their countries intended to sell just over 850,000 tonnes of sugar into EC intervention stocks. The Commission riposted by signalling that it would sell the sugar sold into intervention back onto the EC market by tender, a move that would push down prices. The sources said French traders planned to sell 775,000 tonnes into intervention stocks, West German traders 7,500 tonnes and Dutch traders 2,500.