EN Official Journal of the European Union C 299/7

COMMISSION NOTICE

initiating a screening of the parties currently exempted from the extended anti-dumping duty on certain bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97

2014/C 299/08

I. Legal framework

1. An anti-dumping duty currently applies on imports into the European Union of essential bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China (‘the extended duty’) as a result of the extension by Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 (1) (‘the extending Regulation’) of the anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 (2).

2. Under Article 3 of the extending Regulation, the European Commission (‘the Commission’) is empowered to adopt the necessary measures to authorise the exemption of imports of essential bicycle parts which do not circumvent the anti-dumping duty.

3. Those implementing measures are contained in Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (3) (‘the exemption Regulation’). On the basis of the exemption Regulation, a number of bicycle assemblers have over time been exempted by the Commission from the extended duty (‘the exempted parties’).

II. Listing of the parties currently exempted

4. As provided for in Article 16(2) of the exemption Regulation, the Commission has published in the Official Journal of the European Union successive lists of the exempted parties (4). The Annex sets out the consolidated list of 262 exempted parties as of 5 September 2014.

III. Initiation of a screening of the parties currently exempted

5. As mentioned in recital 44 of the extending Regulation, the Commission has to keep the exemption system constantly under review in order that it may be adapted where necessary to take account of experience gained with the operation of that system.

6. In this context, it has come to the attention of the Commission that a number of exempted parties have ceased to exist, have changed their activity or their company details (such as the company name, the legal form or registered office address).

7. To ensure the sound management of the exemption system, the Commission hereby initiates the screening of all exempted parties listed in the Annex. The objective of this screening is to: i) bring the references to exempted parties in the TARIC database in line with their company details as recorded in the business registries; ii) identify the exemptions that are no longer justified (e.g. in cases where an exempted party ceased to exist, requests the revocation of its exemption or does not cooperate); iii) collect basic information about the exempted parties, such as their contact details and relevant information about their assembly operations.

8. The screening questionnaire is accessible online via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/BPESscreening2014

9. The Commission encourages all exempted parties to complete and submit the questionnaire online. If an exempted party is unable to access the questionnaire online, it may choose to file a paper or electronic copy with the Commission. In this case, a request for a paper questionnaire shall be sent to the following e-mail address: TRADE-BICYCLE-PARTS@ec.europa.eu or, in case this is not possible, sent by post to the following address: European Commission Directorate-General for Trade Directorate H Trade Defence Office: CHAR 04/039 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel BELGIQUE/BELGIË

10. The reply to the questionnaire should include an electronic copy of the excerpt from the business registry of the exempted party concerned (ideally in PDF format). This excerpt shall not be older than 3 months.

11. All exempted parties are requested to respond to the screening questionnaire by 20 October 2014 at the latest.

12. The information collected through the screening questionnaire is essential for the sound management of the exemption system established by the exemption Regulation, and the attention of the exempted parties is therefore drawn on the fact that failure to respond completely and correctly to that questionnaire on time will be considered as a lack of cooperation for the purpose of Article 10 of the exemption Regulation.

13. Any enquiry concerning the questionnaire has to be sent to the following functional e-mail address: TRADE-BICYCLE-PARTS@ec.europa.eu

14. Any personal data collected in this screening will be treated pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (5).

15. By using e-mail in correspondence with the Commission, exempted parties express their agreement with the rules applicable to electronic submissions contained in the document ‘CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN TRADE DEFENCE CASES’ published on the website of the Directorate-General for Trade (6).

16. The present Notice is published in the Official Journal of the European Union and notified to each of the exempted parties listed in the Annex and to the Member States.

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of 10 January 1997 extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 on bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China to imports of certain bicycle parts from the People’s Republic of China, and levying the extended duty on such imports registered under Regulation (EC) No 703/96 (OJ L 16, 18.1.1997, p. 55).

(2) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 of 8 September 1993 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports into the Community of bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China and collecting definitively the provisional anti-dumping duty (OJ L 228, 9.9.1993, p. 1).

(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 of 20 January 1997 on the authorisation of the exemption of imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China from the extension by Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the anti-dumping duty imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 (OJ L 17, 21.1.1997, p. 17).

(4) OJ C 45, 13.2.1997, p. 3, OJ C 112, 10.4.1997, p. 9, OJ C 220, 19.7.1997, p. 6, OJ C 378, 13.12.1997, p. 2, OJ C 217, 11.7.1998, p. 9, OJ C 37, 11.2.1999, p. 3, OJ C 186, 2.7.1999, p. 6, OJ C 216, 28.7.2000, p. 8, OJ C 170, 14.6.2001, p. 5, OJ C 103, 30.4.2002, p. 2, OJ C 35, 14.2.2003, p. 3, OJ C 43, 22.2.2003, p. 5, OJ C 54, 2.3.2004, p. 2, OJ C 299, 4.12.2004, p. 4, OJ L 17, 21.1.2006, p. 16 and OJ L 313, 14.11.2006, p. 5, OJ L 81, 20.3.2008, p. 73, OJ C 310, 5.12.2008, p. 19, OJ L 19, 23.1.2009, p. 62, OJ L 314, 1.12.2009, p. 106, OJ L 136, 24.5.2011, p. 99, OJ L 343, 23.12.2011, p. 86, OJ L 119, 23.4.2014, p. 67.

(5) OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.

(6) Available on: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2011/june/tradoc_148003.pdf