Council Regulation (EC) No 1515/2002 of 16 August 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Croatia and Ukraine
Date: 2002-08-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Croatia, Ukraine, anti-dumping duty, import, originating product, piping, tube

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1515/2002

of 16 August 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of
certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel originating in Croatia and Ukraine

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

these exporting producers were exempted from the said
anti-dumping duty.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22
December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from
countries not members of the European Community (1), and in
particular Article 8 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commission
after consulting the Advisory Committee,

Whereas:

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURE

(1)

(2)

(3)

On 19 November 1998, an anti-dumping proceeding
was initiated by the Commission (2) on imports of
certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy
steel (‘the product concerned’) originating, inter alia, in
Ukraine.

This proceeding resulted in an anti-dumping duty being
imposed by Council Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 (3) in
February 2000 in order to eliminate the injurious effects
of dumping.

In parallel, by Decision 2000/137/EC (4), the Commis-
sion accepted a joint price undertaking up to a certain
volume threshold incorporating measures aimed at
monitoring the undertaking from three Ukrainian
exporting producers, Dnepropetrovsk Tube Works
(‘DTW’), Nikopol Pivdennotrubny Works (transferred
later to Nikopolsky Seamless Tube Plant, ‘Niko Tube’ (5))
and Nizhnedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant
(‘NTRP’).
imports of the product concerned from
Accordingly,

(4)

(5)

B. VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWAL OF THE JOINT UNDER-

TAKING

DTW, Niko Tube and NTRP advised the Commission
that they wished to withdraw this joint undertaking.
Accordingly, by Commission Decision 2002/669/EC (6),
the names of these companies have been deleted from
the list of companies from which undertakings are
accepted in Article 1 of Decision 2000/137/EC.

C. AMENDMENT OF REGULATION (EC) No 348/2000

In view of the above and pursuant to Article 8(9) of
Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96, Article 2(4) of
Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 should be amended
accordingly, and the exporting producers should be
subject to the appropriate rate of anti-dumping duty for
the Ukraine as set in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No
348/2000 (38,5 %),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The table in Article 2(4) of Regulation (EC) No 348/2000 shall
be replaced by the following table:

‘Country

Manufacturer

TARIC additional
code

Croatia

Zeljezara Sisak d.d., Sisak

A064’

Article 2

(1) OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula-

tion (EC) No 2238/2000 (OJ L 257, 11.10.2000, p. 2).

(2) OJ C 353, 19.11.1998, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 45, 17.2.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 46, 18.2.2000, p. 34.
(5) OJ C 198, 13.7.2001, p. 2.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

(6) See page 20 of this Official Journal.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 16 August 2002.

For the Council

The President

P. S. MØLLER