2008/260/EC: Commission Decision of 18 March 2008 granting certain parties an exemption from the extension to certain bicycle parts of the anti-dumping duty on bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93, last maintained and amended by Regulation (EC) No 1095/2005, 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(2008) 1044)
Date: 2008-03-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping duty, anti-dumping legislation, cycle and motorcycle industry, import, originating product, spare part, two-wheeled vehicle

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DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 March 2008

granting certain parties an exemption from the extension to certain bicycle parts of the anti-
dumping duty on bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China imposed by Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93, last maintained and amended by Regulation (EC) No 1095/2005,
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(2008) 1044)

(2008/260/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 (2) (the ‘extending Regulation’), extending the definitive
anti-dumping duty imposed by Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 (3) 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,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (4) (the ‘exemption Regulation’) on the author-
isation 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, 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 2117/2005 (OJ L 340, 23.12.2005,

p. 17).

(2) OJ L 16, 18.1.1997, p. 55.
(3) OJ L 228, 9.9.1993, p. 1. Regulation as maintained by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000 (OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 39)

and amended by Regulation (EC) No 1095/2005 (OJ L 183, 14.7.2005, p. 1).

(4) OJ L 17, 21.1.1997, p. 17.

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Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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 from 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 Journal
successive lists of bicycle assemblers (1) for which the 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.

Following the last publication of the list of parties under examination (2), a period of examination has
been selected. Due to the accession of Bulgaria and Romania it was decided to determine an
examination period from 1 January 2006 until 30 June 2007 so that in the same procedure also
requests for exemptions submitted by Bulgarian and Romanian bicycle assemblers could be analysed.
A questionnaire was sent to all parties under examination, requesting information on the assembly
operations conducted during the relevant period of examination.

A. REQUESTS FOR EXEMPTION FOR WHICH SUSPENSION WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED

A.1. Acceptable requests for exemption

The Commission received from the parties listed in table 1 below all the information required for the
determination of the admissibility of their requests. These parties received their suspension after this
date. 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 Regu-
lation.

Country

TARIC addi-
tional code

Name

Alubike — Bicicletas S.A.

Table 1

Address

Zona Industrial de Oia, Lote C-10,
3770-059 Oliveira do Bairro

Balkanvelo AD

1 Mizia Blvd., 5500 Lovech

Bonaventure BVBA

Stoomtuigstraat 16, 8830 Hooglede

Portugal

Bulgaria

Belgium

CROSS Ltd.

1 Hadji Dimitar Street, 3400 Montana

Bulgaria

SC Eurosport DHS SA

F.lli Schiano S.R.L.

Santuhalm Street 35A, Deva,
Hunedoara

dept.

Romania

Via Carmelo Pezzullo 20,
80027 Frattamaggiore (NA)

Italy

Goldbike —
Industria de Bicicletas Lda

R. Flores, 3780 594 Poutena-Vilarinho
do Bairro

Portugal

Helkama Velox Oy

Ing. Jaromír Březina

Santalantie 22, 10960 Hanko Pohjoinen

Finland

Foglarova 2896/11, 787 01 Šumperk

Czech Republic

KHE Fahrradhandels GmbH

Gablonzer Strasse 10, 76185 Karlsruhe

Germany

Koga BV.

Tinweg 9, 8445 PD Heerenveen

The Netherlands

Rijwielen en Bromfietsenfabriek
L'Avenir NV

Posthoornstraat 1, 2500 Lier

Belgium

Leader — 96 Ltd.

19 Sedianka Str., 4003 Plovdiv

Bulgaria

A730

A811

A732

A810

A817

A824

A777

A825

A776

A794

A773

A826

A813

(1) OJ C 45, 13.2.1997, p. 3, OJ C 112, 10.4.1997, p. 9, OJ C 220, 19.7.1997, p. 6, 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 35, 14.2.2003, p. 3, OJ C 43, 22.2.2003, p. 5, OJ C 54, 2.3.2004,
p. 2, OJ C 299, 4.12.2004, p. 4, OJ L 17, 21.1.2006, p. 16 and OJ L 313, 14.11.2006, p. 5.

(2) OJ L 313, 14.11.2006, p. 5.

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Name

Address

Country

TARIC addi-
tional code

Look Cycle International S.A.

27, rue du Dr. Léveillé, 58000 Nevers

France

Maxcom Ltd.

13 Peshtersko shousse Str., 4000 Plovdiv Bulgaria

Prestige Rijwielen NV

Zuiderdijk 25, 9230 Wetteren

Belgium

Puky GmbH & Co. KG

Fortunastrasse 11, 42489 Wülfrath

Germany

Robifir Bike Ltd.

3A Kosta Bosilkov Street,
2700 Blagoevgrad

Bulgaria

Skeppshultcykeln AB

Storgatan 78, 333 03 Skeppshult

Sweden

Stevens Vertriebs GmbH

Asbrookdamm 35, 22115 Hamburg

Germany

Trenga DE Vertriebs GmbH

Velomania Ltd.

Grossmoordamm 63—67,
21079 Hamburg

Dimitar Nestorov Street bl. 120,
1612 Sofia

Germany

Bulgaria

A781

A812

A737

A778

A815

A745

A774

A746

A814

(4)

(5)

(6)

The facts as finally ascertained by the Commission show that for 22 of 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 this reason, 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.

(7)

It is to be noted that the following party listed in table 1 informed the Commission services of a
change in its registered seat during the examination period:

— Leader-96 Ltd. transferred its registered office from 3 Mostova Str., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria to 19

Sedianka Str., 4003 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

(8)

It has been established that this change in the address of the registered office did not affect the
assembly operation with regard to the stipulations of the exemption Regulation and therefore the
Commission does not consider that this change should affect the exemption from the extended anti-
dumping duty.

A.2. Unacceptable requests for exemption and withdrawals

(9)

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

Name

Isaac International Ltd.

Table 2

Address

Country

TARIC addi-
tional code

4 Axis Park, P014 1FD Fareham Hants,
Hampshire

United Kingdom

A816

Loris Cycles di Perinel Lori

Via delle Industrie 8, 30022 Ceggia (VE)

Italy

ROG Kolesa d.d. (formerly ELAN
Bikes d.d)

Letališka 29, 1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia

A731

A538

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(10)

Two parties withdrew their request for exemption and informed the Commission accordingly.

(11) Another party went bankrupt and consequently ceased the assembly activities.

(12)

Since the parties listed in table 2 failed to meet the criteria for exemption set by Article 6(2) of the
exemption Regulation, the Commission has to reject their requests for exemptions, 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.

B. REQUESTS FOR EXEMPTION FOR WHICH SUSPENSION WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED

B.1. Inadmissible requests for exemption

(13)

The parties listed in table 3 also submitted requests for exemption from the payment of the extended
anti-dumping duty:

Name

Table 3

Address

BBC International Biria Bike
Company International GmbH

Mannheimer Strasse 80,
68535 Edingen-Neckarhausen

Country

Germany

Ets. TH Brasseur SA

Rue des Steppes 13, 4000 Liège

Belgium

Individual Bike s.r.o.

Kmochova 2430, 431 11 Chomutov

Czech Republic

Shrapnell NV

Groendreef 7, 9500 Geraardsbergen

Belgium

(14) With regard to these parties, it should be noted that their requests did not meet the admissibility
criteria set out in Article 4(1) of the exemption Regulation as all these applicants use essential bicycle
parts for the production or assembly of bicycles in quantities below 300 units per type on a monthly
basis.

(15)

These parties were informed accordingly and were given an opportunity to comment. For two parties
no comments were received, the remaining two parties withdrew their request. As a consequence, no
suspension was granted to these parties.

B.2. Admissible requests for exemption for which suspension should be granted

(16)

Interested parties are hereby informed of the receipt of further requests for exemption, pursuant to
Article 3 of the exemption Regulation, from parties listed in table 4. The suspension from the
extended duty, following these requests, should take effect as shown in the column headed ‘Date
of effect’:

Table 4

Name

Address

Country

Suspension
pursuant to
Regulation (EC)
No 88/97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

Blue Ocean Hungary
Ltd.

Sukorói u. 8,
8097 Nadap

Canyon Bicycles
GmbH

Koblenzer Strasse 236,
56073 Koblenz

Euro-Bike-Products

Ul. Starołęcka 18,
61-361 Poznań

Hungary

Article 5

30.1.2008

A858

Germany

Article 5

4.12.2007

A856

Poland

Article 5

6.8.2007

A849

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Name

Address

Country

Suspension
pursuant to
Regulation (EC)
No 88/97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

EUSA Mart
European Sales &
Marketing GmbH &
Co. KG

KOVL spol. S.r.o.

An der Welle 4, 60322
Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Article 5

7.1.2008

A857

Choceradská 3042/20,
141 00 Praha 4

Czech
Republic

Article 5

29.3.2007

A838

MICPOL

Ul. Myśliborska 93A m.
62, 03-185 Warszawa

N&W Cycle GmbH

Radsportvertrieb
Dietmar Bayer
GmbH

Mühlenhof 5,
51598 Friesenhagen

Zum Acker 1,
56244 Freirachdorf

Special Bike —
Societa Cooperativa

Via Nizza 20,
71042 Cerignola (FG)

Poland

Article 5

17.4.2007

A839

Germany

Article 5

11.10.2007

A852

Germany

Article 5

25.6.2007

A850

Italy

Article 5

22.1.2008

A533

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 Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the definitive anti-
dumping duty on bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China imposed by Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2474/93, as maintained by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000 and amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1095/2005.

The exemption 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

Address

Country

Exemption
pursuant to
Regulation (EC)
No 88/97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

Alubike — Bicicletas
S.A.

Zona Industrial de Oia, Lote C-
10, 3770-059 Oliveira do Bairro

Portugal

Article 7

12.12.2005

A730

Balkanvelo AD

1 Mizia Blvd.,
5500 Lovech

Bonaventure BVBA

CROSS Ltd.

Stoomtuigstraat 16,
8830 Hooglede

1 Hadji Dimitar Street,
3400 Montana

Bulgaria

Article 7

1.1.2007

A811

Belgium

Article 7

19.1.2006

A732

Bulgaria

Article 7

1.1.2007

A810

SC Eurosport DHS
SA

Santuhalm Street 35A, Deva,
dept. Hunedoara

Romania

Article 7

1.1.2007

A817

F.lli Schiano S.R.L.

Goldbike —
Industria de
Bicicletas Lda

Via Carmelo Pezzullo 20,
80027 Frattamaggiore (NA)

R. Flores, 3780 594
Poutena-Vilarinho do Bairro

Italy

Article 7

31.1.2007

A824

Portugal

Article 7

9.8.2006

A777

Helkama Velox Oy

Santalantie 22, 10960 Hanko
Pohjoinen

Finland

Article 7

29.1.2007

A825

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Name

Address

Country

Ing. Jaromír Březina

Foglarova 2896/11,
787 01 Šumperk

Czech
Republic

Exemption
pursuant to
Regulation (EC)
No 88/97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

Article 7

20.7.2006

A776

KHE Fahrradhandels
GmbH

Gablonzer Strasse 10,
76185 Karlsruhe

Germany

Article 7

6.11.2006

A794

Koga BV.

Tinweg 9,
8445 PD Heerenveen

The
Netherlands

Article 7

19.6.2006

A773

Posthoornstraat 1, 2500 Lier

Belgium

Article 7

21.3.2007

A826

Rijwielen en
Bromfietsenfabriek
L'Avenir NV
Leader — 96 Ltd.

19 Sedianka Str., 4003 Plovdiv

Bulgaria

Look Cycle
International S.A.

27, rue du Dr. Léveillé,
58000 Nevers

France

Article 7

Article 7

1.1.2007

14.9.2006

A813

A781

Maxcom Ltd.

13 Peshtersko shousse Str.,
4000 Plovdiv

Prestige
Rijwielen NV

Zuiderdijk 25,
9230 Wetteren

Puky GmbH & Co.
KG

Fortunastrasse 11,
42489 Wülfrath

Robifir Bike Ltd.

3A Kosta Bosilkov Street,
2700 Blagoevgrad

Bulgaria

Article 7

1.1.2007

A812

Belgium

Article 7

16.2.2006

A737

Germany

Article 7

21.8.2006

A778

Bulgaria

Article 7

1.1.2007

A815

Skeppshultcykeln
AB

Stevens Vertriebs
GmbH

Trenga DE Vertriebs
GmbH

Velomania Ltd.

Storgatan 78, 333 03 Skeppshult

Sweden

Article 7

29.3.2006

A745

Asbrookdamm 35,
22115 Hamburg
Grossmoordamm 63—67,
21079 Hamburg

Dimitar Nestorov Street bl. 120,
1612 Sofia

Germany

Article 7

3.7.2006

A774

Germany

Article 7

10.5.2006

A746

Bulgaria

Article 7

1.1.2007

A814

The requests for exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty submitted pursuant to Article 3 of
Commission 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’.

Table 2

List of parties for which the suspension is to be lifted

Name

Address

Country

Isaac International
Ltd.

4 Axis Park, P014 1FD Fareham
Hants, Hampshire

United
Kingdom

Suspension
pursuant to
Regulation (EC)
No 88/97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

Article 5

13.12.2006

A816

Loris Cycles di
Perinel Lori

Via delle
Ceggia (VE)

Industrie 8, 30022

Italy

Article 5

13.12.2005

A731

ROG Kolesa d.d.
(former ELAN Bikes,
d.d.)

Letališka 29,
1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia

Article 5

1.5.2004

A538

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The parties listed in table 3 below constitute the updated list of parties under examination pursuant to
Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 88/97. The suspension from the extended duty, following these requests,
took effect from the relevant date in the column headed ‘Date of effect’ in Table 3.

Article 3

Table 3

List of parties under examination

Name

Address

Country

Suspension
pursuant to
Regulation (EC)
No 88/97

Date of effect

TARIC
additional
code

Blue Ocean Hungary
Ltd.

Sukorói u. 8,
8097 Nadap

Canyon Bicycles
GmbH

Koblenzer Strasse 236,
56073 Koblenz

Euro-Bike-Products

Ul. Starołęcka 18,
61-361 Poznań

Hungary

Article 5

30.1.2008

A858

Germany

Article 5

4.12.2007

A856

Poland

Article 5

6.8.2007

A849

EUSA Mart
European Sales &
Marketing GmbH &
Co. KG

An der Welle 4, 60322 Frankfurt
am Main

Germany

Article 5

7.1.2008

A857

KOVL spol. S.r.o.

Choceradská 3042/20,
141 00 Praha 4

Czech
Republic

Article 5

29.3.2007

A838

MICPOL

Ul. Myśliborska 93A m. 62,
03-185 Warszawa

Poland

Article 5

17.4.2007

A839

N&W Cycle GmbH

Mühlenhof 5,
51598 Friesenhagen

Radsportvertrieb
Dietmar Bayer
GmbH

Zum Acker 1,
56244 Freirachdorf

Special Bike —
Societa Cooperativa

Via Nizza 20,
71042 Cerignola (FG)

Germany

Article 5

11.10.2007

A852

Germany

Article 5

25.6.2007

A850

Italy

Article 5

22.1.2008

A533

The requests for exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty made by the parties listed below in table
4 are hereby rejected.

Article 4

List of parties for which the request for exemption is rejected

Table 4

Name

Address

Country

BBC International Biria Bike
Company International GmbH

Mannheimer Strasse 80, 68535 Edingen-
Neckarhausen

Germany

Ets. TH Brasseur SA

Rue des Steppes 13, 4000 Liège

Belgium

Individual Bike s.r.o.

Kmochova 2430, 431 11 Chomutov

Czech Republic

Shrapnell NV

Groendreef 7, 9500 Geraardsbergen

Belgium

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This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 18 March 2008.

For the Commission

Peter MANDELSON
Member of the Commission