2003/899/EC: Commission Decision of 28 November 2003 granting certain parties an exemption from the extension to certain bicycle parts, by Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97, of the anti-dumping duty on bicycles originating in the People's Republic of China imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93, and maintained by Council Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000, and lifting the suspension of the payment of the anti-dumping duty extended to certain bicycle parts originating in the People's Republic of China granted to certain parties pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (notified under document number C(2003) 4419)
Date: 2003-11-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, import, originating product, two-wheeled vehicle

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 28 November 2003

granting certain parties an exemption from the extension to certain bicycle parts, by Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 71/97, of the anti-dumping duty on bicycles originating in the People's Republic of
China imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93, and maintained by Council Regulation
(EC) No 1524/2000, and lifting the suspension of the payment of the anti-dumping duty extended
to certain bicycle parts originating in the People's Republic of China granted to certain parties
pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97

(notified under document number C(2003) 4419)

(2003/899/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1972/2002 (2) (the basic Regulation),

Having regard to 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 Commission Regulation (EC) No 703/96 (3), and maintained by
Council Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000 (4) (the extending Regulation),

Having regard to 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 exten-
sion by Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the anti-dumping duty imposed by Council Regulation (EEC)
No 2474/93 (5) (the exemption Regulation), maintained by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000, and in particu-
lar Article 7 thereof,

After consulting the Advisory Committee,

Whereas:

(1)

After the entry into force of the exemption Regulation, a number of bicycle assemblers submitted
requests pursuant to Article 3 of that Regulation for exemption of the anti-dumping duty as
extended to imports of certain bicycle parts from the People's Republic of China by Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 71/97 (the extended anti-dumping duty). The Commission has published in the Offi-
cial Journal of the European Union successive lists of applicants (6) for which payment of the extended
anti-dumping duty in respect of their imports of essential bicycle parts declared for free circulation
was suspended pursuant to Article 5(1) of the exemption Regulation.

(1) OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 305, 7.11.2002, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 16, 18.1.1997, p. 55.
(4) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 39.
(5) OJ L 17, 21.1.1997, p. 17.
(6) OJ C 45, 13 2.1997, p. 3, OJ C 112, 10.4.1997, p. 9, 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 43, 22.2.2003, p. 5.

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(2)

The Commission requested and received from the parties listed in Table 1 below all the information
required for the determination of the admissibility of their requests. The information provided was
examined and verified, where necessary, at the premises of the parties concerned. Based on this
information, the Commission found that the requests submitted by the parties listed in Table 1
below are admissible pursuant to Article 4(1) of the exemption Regulation.

Name

Ottobici srl

TABLE 1

City

Z.I. Località Terzerie
I-84053 Cicerale (SA)

Heinrich Böttcher GmbH & Co.
KG

Waldstraße 3
D-25746 Wesseln/Heide

Sangal — Indústria de Veículos,
Lda

Rua do Serrado — Apartado 21
P-3781 – 908
Sangalhos

Biciclasse CS SRL

GFM Bike di Ingarao Franco

Jose Alvarez SA

Epple Zweirad GmbH

Via Roma, 4
I-84020 Oliveto Citra

Via Circonvallazione, 32
I-94011 Agira

Z.I. de l'Hippodrome
F-32020 Auch Cedex 09

Mittereschweg 1
D-87700 Memmingen

F.A.A.C. Snc di Sbrissa F.lli & C. Via Monte Antelao 11/a
I-31030 Bessica di Loria

Toim SL

C/. Jarama — Parcela 138 Polígono indus-
trial
E-45007 Toledo

Veronese Luigi Snc di Veronese
Paolo e Elisabetta (Cicli Roveco)

Via Umberto I 508
I-45023 Costa di Rovigo

Telai Olagnero Srl

Steppenwolf GmbH

Strada Valle Maira
I-12020 Roccabruna

Wetterstreinstraße, 18
D-82024 Taufkirchen

Country

TARIC addi-
tional code

Italy

A243

Germany

A415

Portugal

A407

Italy

A359

Italy

A360

France

A374

Germany

A376

Italy

A377

Spain

A384

Italy

A402

Italy

A403

Germany

A406

B — tecnología SA

Ag Panteleimonas — N. Santa
GR-61100 Dimou Gallikou — Kilkis

Greece

A411

Atala SpA

Norta N.V.

Via Lussemburgo 31/33
I-35127 Padova

Stradsestraat 17
B-2250 Olen

Italy

A412

Belgium

A413

Cicli Roger di Rubin Giorgio Sas Via delle Industrie 2/72

Italy

A422

Carnielli Fitness Spa

I-30020 Meolo

Via Menarè 296
I-31029 Vittorio Veneto

Italy

A423

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(3)

(4)

(5)

The facts as finally ascertained by the Commission show that for all these applicants' bicycle
assembly operations, the value of the parts originating in the People's Republic of China which were
used in their assembly operations was lower than 60 % of the total value of the parts used in these
assembly operations, and they, therefore, fall outside the scope of Article 13(2) of the basic Regu-
lation.

For the above reasons, and in accordance with Article 7(1) of the exemption Regulation, the parties
listed in the above table should be exempted from the extended anti-dumping duty.

In accordance with Article 7(2) of the exemption Regulation, the exemption of the parties listed in
Table 1 from the extended anti-dumping duty should take effect as from the date of receipt of their
requests. In addition, their customs debt in respect of the extended anti-dumping duty is to be
considered void as from the date of receipt of their requests for exemption.

(6)

The parties listed in Table 2 below also submitted requests for exemption from the extended anti-
dumping duty.

TABLE 2

Name

City

A.J. Maias, Lda

Ajmaia P — Apartado 27
P-3781-908 Sangallhos

Country

TARIC addi-
tional code

Portugal

A401

Faema Cicli Picc. Soc. Coop.
ARL

Via Nicosia 6
I-93017 San Cataldo

Italy

A358

Reece Cycles Plc

Bikedirect Europa Ltd

106-114 Emily Street
Birmingham — B12 0SL
United Kingdom

Unit 8
Parc Hafren — Business Park
Llanidloes, Powys, SY18 6RB
United Kingdom

United
Kingdom

A385

United
Kingdom

A399

Coster SNC di Lazzarini Nadia e
Pagani Patrizia

Piazza Borromeo 10
I-20123 Milano

Italy

A414

With regard to these requests, it should be noted that:

(a) two of those parties failed to submit the necessary information requested by the Commission;

(b) another party withdrew its request for exemption;

(c) another party was not found at the address indicated in the application;

(d) the last applicant was visited on the spot by Commission officials and it was found that during
the examination period (financial year 2002), the bicycle parts purchased by that applicant were
sold on to third parties and subsequently assembled, together with other bicycle parts, by that
applicant on behalf of the new owners of the totality of bicycle parts. Therefore, it was not
possible to ascertain that the value of the parts originating in the People's Republic of China
which were used in its assembly operations was lower than 60 % of the total value of the parts
used and it was concluded that the applicant does not fall outside the scope of Article 13(2).

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(7)

(8)

Since the parties listed in Table 2 failed to meet the criteria for exemption set by Article 4 of the
exemption Regulation, the Commission has to reject their requests for exemption, in accordance
with Article 7(3) of the Regulation. In the light of this, the suspension of the payment of the
extended anti-dumping duty referred to in Article 5 of the exemption Regulation must be lifted and
the extended anti-dumping duty must be collected as from the date of receipt of the requests
submitted by these parties.

Following the adoption of this Decision, an updated list of parties exempted pursuant to Article 7 of
the exemption Regulation and of parties whose requests pursuant to Article 3 of that Regulation are
under examination should be published in the ‘C’ series of the Official Journal of the European Union
in accordance with Article 16(2) of that Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The parties listed below in Table 1 are hereby exempted from the extension to imports of certain bicycle
parts from the People's Republic of China by Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the definitive anti-dumping duty
imposed on bicycles originating in the People's Republic of China by Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93, and
maintained by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000.

The exemptions shall take effect in relation to each party as from the relevant date shown in the column
headed ‘Date of effect’.

TABLE 1

List of parties to be exempted

Name

City

Country

Exemption
pursuant to
Regulation
(EC) No 88/
97

Date of
effect

TARIC addi-
tional code

Ottobici srl

Z.I. Località Terzerie
I-84053 Cicerale (SA)

Italy

Article 7

5.1.2001

A243

Heinrich Böttcher GmbH
& Co. KG

Waldstraße 3
D-25746 Wesseln/Heide

Germany

Article 7

7.3.2001

A415

Sangal — Indústria de
Veículos, Lda

Rua do Serrado — Apartado 21
P-3781-908
Sangalhos

Portugal

Article 7

15.10.2001

A407

Biciclasse CS SRL

Via Roma 4
I-84020 Oliveto Citra

Italy

Article 7

1.3.2002

A359

GFM Bike di
Franco

Ingarao

Via Circonvallazione 32
I-94011 Agira

Italy

Article 7

18.3.2002

A360

Jose Alvarez SA

Z.I. de l'Hippodrome
F-32020 Auch Cedex 09

France

Article 7

26.3.2002

A374

Epple Zweirad GmbH

Mittereschweg 1
D-87700 Memmingen

Germany

Article 7

15.4.2002

A376

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Name

City

Country

Exemption
pursuant to
Regulation
(EC) No 88/
97

Date of
effect

TARIC addi-
tional code

F.A.A.C. Snc di Sbrissa
F.lli & C.

Via Monte Antelao 11/a
I-31030 Bessica di Loria

Toim SL

Jarama — Parcela

C/.
Polígono industrial
E-45007 Toledo

Veronese Luigi s.n.c. di
Veronese Paolo e Elisa-
betta — Cicli Roveco

Via Umberto I 508
I-45023 Costa di Rovigo

Telai Olagnero Srl

Steppenwolf GmbH

B — tecnología SA

Atala SpA

Norta NV

Strada Valle Maira
I-12020 Roccabruna

Wetterstreinstraße, 18
D-82024 Taufkirchen

Ag Panteleimonas — N. Santa
GR-61100 Dimou Gallikou —
Kilkis

Via Lussemburgo 31/33
I-35127 Padova

Stradsestraat 17
B-2250 Olen

Cicli Roger di Rubin
Giorgio Sas

Via delle Industrie 2/72
I-30020 Meolo

Carnielli Fitness Spa

Via Motta 296
I-31029 Vittorio Veneto

Italy

Article 7

23.4.2002

A377

138

Spain

Article 7

7.5.2002

A384

Italy

Article 7

12.6.2002

A402

Italy

Article 7

18.7.2002

A403

Germany

Article 7

24.7.2002

A406

Greece

Article 7

6.9.2002

A411

Italy

Article 7

23.9.2002

A412

Belgium

Article 7

24.9.2002

A413

Italy

Article 7

22.11.2002

A422

Italy

Article 7

16.12.2002

A423

Article 2

The requests for exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty made in accordance with Article 3 of
Regulation (EC) No 88/97 by the parties listed below in Table 2 are hereby rejected.

The suspension of payment of the extended anti-dumping duty pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC)
No 88/97 is hereby lifted for the parties concerned as from the relevant date shown in the column headed
‘Date of effect’.

TABLE 2

List of parties for which the suspension is to be lifted

Name

City

Country

Suspension
pursuant to
Regulation
(EC) No 88/
97

Date of
effect

TARIC addi-
tional code

A.J. Maias, Lda

Ajmaia P — Apartado 27
P-3781-908 Sangalhos

Faema Cicli Picc. Soc.
Coop. ARL

Via Nicosia 6
I-93017 San Cataldo

Reece Cycles Plc

106-114 Emily Street
Birmingham — B12 0SL
United Kingdom

Portugal

Article 5

12.12.2001

A401

Italy

Article 5

13.3.2002

A358

United
Kingdom

Article 5

7.5.2002

A385

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Name

City

Country

Suspension
pursuant to
Regulation
(EC) No 88/
97

Date of
effect

TARIC addi-
tional code

Bikedirect Europa Ltd

Unit 8
Parc Hafren — Business Park
Llanidloes, Powys, SY18 6RB
United Kingdom

United
Kingdom

Article 5

24.6.2002

A399

Coster SNC di Lazzarini
Nadia e Pagani Patrizia

Piazza Borromeo 10
I-20123 Milano

Italy

Article 5

11.9.2002

A414

This Decision is addressed to the Member States and to the parties listed in Article 1 and 2.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 28 November 2003.

For the Commission

Pascal LAMY

Member of the Commission