Final report of the Hearing Officer in cases COMP/M.2498 — UPM-Kymmene/Haindl, and COMP/M.2499 — Norske Skog/Parenco/Walsum (prepared under Article 15 of the Commission Decision of 23 May 2001 on the terms of reference of Hearing Officers in certain competition proceedings (OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21)) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2001-10-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: audit, competition law, merger control, pulp and paper industry, report

C 206/8

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

30.8.2002

In the event that definitive safeguard measures are adopted, the
Commission may therefore consider it necessary to propose
amendments to the level of these existing anti-dumping or
countervailing duties, pursuant to the Treaty establishing the
European Community, and, in particular, Article 133 thereof,
having regard to Regulation (EC) No 384/96 and Regulation
(EC) No 2026/97. In this respect, the Commission considers it
appropriate to invite all interested parties to make known their
views.

All interested parties are hereby invited to make their views
known, submit information and provide supporting evidence
within 40 days of the publication of this Notice in the Official
Journal of the European Communities. Parties which make them-
selves known to the Commission within this time limit, will be
granted a further period during which to make comments
further to any Commission proposal for definitive safeguard
measures.

It is recalled that, for each of the products concerned, if the
definitive safeguard measures are not imposed, any additional
that product will be
duty paid in relation to imports of
refunded. Therefore,
that definitive
safeguard measures are adopted that it will become apparent
to what extent any of the products concerned are subject to the
combined effect of definitive safeguard measures and the anti-
dumping and/or countervailing measures.

is only in the event

it

4. Written submissions and correspondence

relevant

information is

All
to be communicated to the
Commission. All submissions and requests made by interested
parties must be made in writing (not in electronic format
indicate the name,
unless otherwise specified) and must
address, e-mail address,
telex
numbers of the interested party.

telephone and fax, and/or

3. Procedure and time limits

the Community industry,

In order to have all interested parties views on the above, the
Commission will
any
contact
the exporters/
association of producers in the Community,
producers
in the countries concerned, any association of
exporters/producers in the countries concerned, the importers,
and any association of
importers which cooperated in the
investigation leading to the abovementioned anti-dumping
and countervailing duty measures, and the relevant authorities
of the countries concerned.

The Commission address for correspondence is:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Trade
Directorate B
J-79 5/16
B-1049 Brussels
Fax (32-2) 295 65 05
Telex: COMEU B 21877.

Final report of

the Hearing Officer in cases COMP/M.2498 — UPM-Kymmene/Haindl, and

COMP/M.2499 — Norske Skog/Parenco/Walsum

(prepared under Article 15 of the Commission Decision of 23 May 2001 on the terms of reference of Hearing
Officers in certain competition proceedings (OJ L 162, 19.6.2001, p. 21))

(2002/C 206/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

The draft Decision does not give rise to particular observations. The proceedings took a normal course.
The rights of parties to be heard were fully respected.

Done at Brussels on 30 October 2001.

Luc GYSELEN