2004/776/EC: Commission Decision of 18 November 2004 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(2004) 4383)
Date: 2004-11-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, anti-dumping legislation, originating product, two-wheeled vehicle

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 November 2004

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(2004) 4383)

(2004/776/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) (the basic Regulation),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of 10 January 1997 extending the definitive anti-
dumping duty imposed by Council 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 (2), maintained by Council
Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000 (3) (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
extension by Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the anti-dumping duty imposed by Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2474/93 (4) (the exemption Regulation), maintained by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000, and in
particular Article 7 thereof,

After consulting the Advisory Committee,

(1) OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 461/2004 (OJ L 77, 13.3.2004, p. 12).
(2) OJ L 16, 18.1.1997, p. 55.
(3) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 39.
(4) OJ L 17, 21.1.1997, p. 17.

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Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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 Regulation (EC) No 71/97
(the extended anti-dumping duty). The Commission has published in the Official
the
European Union successive lists of applicants (1) 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.

Journal of

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.

TABLE 1

Name

Address

Country

VIVI’ Bikes SRL

Via Brescia 1, I-26010 Pozzaglio ed Uniti

Star Due SRL

Via De Gasperi 55, I-31010 Coste di Maser

Motomur SL

Ctra Mazarrón, Km.2,
E-30120 El Palmar, Murcia

Italy

Italy

Spain

TARIC
additional
code

A428

A432

A436

Star Ciclo, Montagem Comer-
cializaçaõ de Bicicletas Lda

Vale do Grou, Aguada de Cima,
P-3750-064 Águeda

Portugal

A445

United Bicycles NV

Oude Bunders 2030, B-3630 Maasmechelen

Belgium

Sachs Fahrzeug- und
Motorentechnik GmbH

Nopitschstraße 70, D-90441 Nürnberg

Germany

A467

A485

AGECE, Montagem e
Comércio de Bicicletas SA

Zona Industriale Barrô, Apartado N. 514,
P-3754-909 Águeda

Portugal

A466

Heinz Kettler GmbH & Co.
KG

Postfach 1020, D-59463 Ense Parsit,
Hauptstraße 28, D-59469 Ense Parsit

Germany

A469

Open Space SRL

Via Guido Rossa 18/A,
I-35020 Roncaglia de Ponte San Nicolo

Italy

A486

IMACycles, Acessoriórios para
Bicicletas e Motociclos Lda

ZI Oiã, Apartado 117,
P-3770-059 Oliveira do Bairro

Portugal

A487

Bicicletas de Castilla y León SL Barrio Gimeno 5, E-09001 Burgos

Spain

Giubilato Cicli SRL

Via Gaidon 3, I-36067 S. Giuseppe di Cassola

Italy

A500

8604

(3)

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 Regulation.

(1) 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 and OJ C 54, 2.3.2004 p. 3.

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(4)

(5)

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

Country

TARIC
additional
code

Principia A/S

Fr. Raschsvej 15, DK-9400 Nørresundby

Denmark

A443

Reece Cycles plc

100 Alcester Street, Digbeth,
Birmingham B12 0QB, United Kingdom

United
Kingdom

A385

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

(a) one party withdrew its request for exemption;

(b) another party does not use the bicycle parts for the production or the assembly or completion of

bicycles.

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
the requests
submitted by these parties.

receipt of

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,

(7)

(8)

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 as
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’.

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TABLE 1

List of parties to be exempted

Name

Address

Country

Exemption
pursuant to
Regulation
(EC) No 88/
97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

VIVI’ Bikes SRL

Star Due SRL

Motomur SL

Via Brescia 1,
I-26010 Pozzaglio ed Uniti

Via De Gasperi 55,
I-31010 Coste di Maser

Ctra Mazarrón, Km.2,
E-30120 El Palmar, Murcia

Italy

Article 7

22.1.2003

A428

Italy

Article 7

31.1.2003

A432

Spain

Article 7

11.2.2003

A436

Ciclo, Montagem
Star
Comercializaçaõ de Bici-
cletas Lda

Vale do Grou, Aguada de Cima,
P-3750-064 Águeda

Portugal

Article 7

13.5.2003

A445

United Bicycles NV

Oude Bunders 2030,
B-3630 Maasmechelen

Belgium

Article 7

21.5.2003

A467

Sachs Fahrzeug- und
Motorentechnik GmbH

Nopitschstraße 70,
D-90441 Nürnberg

Germany

Article 7

4.6.2003

A485

AGECE,
Montagem e
Comércio de Bicicletas SA

Zona Industriale Barrô, Apartado
N. 514, P-3754-909 Águeda

Portugal

Article 7

10.6.2003

A466

Heinz Kettler GmbH & Co.
KG

Postfach 1020,
D-59463 Ense Parsit,
Hauptstraße 28,
D-59469 Ense Parsit

Open Space SRL

Via Guido Rossa 18/A,
I-35020 Roncaglia de Ponte San
Nicolo

IMACycles, Acessoriórios
para Bicicletas e Motociclos
Lda

Z.I. Oiã, Apartado 117,
P-3770-059 Oliveira do Bairro

Germany

Article 7

20.6.2003

A469

Italy

Article 7

12.9.2003

A486

Portugal

Article 7

25.9.2003

A487

Bicicletas de Castilla y
León SL

Barrio Gimeno 5,
E-09001 Burgos

Spain

Article 7

9.10.2003

A500

Giubilato Cicli SRL

Via Gaidon 3,
I-36067 S. Giuseppe di Cassola

Italy

Article 7

27.11.2003

8604

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.

Article 2

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’.

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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
additional
code

Principia A/S

Reece Cycles plc

Fr. Raschsvej 15,
DK-9400 Nørresundby

Denmark

Article 5

9.4.2003

A443

100 Alcester Street, Digbeth,
Birmingham B12 0QB,
United Kingdom

United
Kingdom

Article 5

10.10.2003

A385

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

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 18 November 2004.

For the Commission

Pascal LAMY
Member of the Commission