Notice of the expiry of certain anti-dumping measures
Date: 2004-01-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: anti-dumping duty, building slab, originating product, third country

28.1.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 24/19

Tissues

Cattle

BSE

Sheep and goats

Scrapie

Infectivity

PrPTSE

Infectivity

PrPTSE

Tears

Nasal mucus

Urine (4) (5)

Faeces

NT

NT

–

–

NT

NT

NT

NT

NT

NT

NT

–

NT

NT

NT

NT

(1) Embryos from BSE-affected cattle have not transmitted disease to mice, but no infectivity measurements have been made on foetal
calf tissues other than blood (negative mouse bioassay). Calves born of dams that received embryos from BSE-affected cattle have
survived for observation periods of up to seven years, and examination of the brains of both the unaffected dams and their calves
revealed no spongiform encephalopathy or PrPTSE.

(2) Intracerebral inoculation of muscle homogenates has not transmitted disease to (1) primates from humans with sCJD; (2) mice or
cattle from cattle with BSE; and (3) mice from sheep and goats with natural or experimentally-induced scrapie. However, older reports
described single instances of transmission from goat and hamster muscle, and a more recent report described transmission from the
muscle of wild type and transgenic mice, but as each of these studies were conducted with passaged strains of TSE, their relevance to
natural disease remains undetermined. A recent human case report described a patient with CJD and inclusion body myositis with
abundant PrPTSE in diseased muscle. After much deliberation, the committee nevertheless elected to retain muscle in the ‘no detected
infectivity’ tissue category until more information about uncomplicated natural infections becomes available.

(3) Evidence that infectivity is not present in milk includes temporo-spatial epidemiologic observations failing to detect maternal trans-
mission; clinical observations of over a hundred calves nursed by infected cows that have not developed BSE; and experimental
observations that milk from infected cows has not
transmitted disease when administered intracerebrally or orally to mice.
Experiments are in progress in which large volumes of milk from experimentally infected cows are concentrated and tested for
the presence of PrPTSE.

(4) Single reports of transmission of CJD infectivity from human cord blood, colostrum, and urine have never been confirmed and are

considered improbable.

(5) A previously unreported PrP type, termed PrPu, has been identified in the urine of sporadic and familial CJD patients, but its

significance for transmission risk remains to be determined.

Notice of the expiry of certain anti-dumping measures

(2004/C 24/04)

Further to the publication of a notice of impending expiry (1), following which no request for a review was
received, the Commission gives notice that the anti-dumping measures mentioned below will shortly
expire.

This notice is published in accordance with Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22
December 1995 (2) on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European
Community.

Product

Country(ies) of origin
or exportation

Measures

Reference

Date of expiry

Hardboard

Bulgaria
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russia

Bulgaria
Estonia
Lithuania
Poland

Duty

Regulation (EC) No 194/1999
(OJ L 22, 29.1.1999, p. 16)
as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1899/2001
(OJ L 261, 29.9.2001, p. 1)

29.1.2004

Undertaking Decision 1999/71/EC

(OJ L 22, 29.1.1999, p. 71)
as last amended by
Decision 2001/707/EC
(OJ L 261, 29.9.2001, p. 65)

(1) OJ C 100, 26.4.2003, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1972/2002 (OJ L 305, 7.11.2002, p. 1).