C 248/146
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
30.6.2022
In order to enable the Commission to decide whether sampling is necessary and, if so, to select a sample, all unrelated importers, or representatives acting on their behalf, including the ones who did not cooperate in the investigation leading to the measures subject to the present review, are hereby requested to make themselves known to the Commission.
These parties must do so within 7 days of the date of publication of this Notice by providing the Commission with the information on their company(ies) requested in the Annex to this Notice.
In order to obtain information it deems necessary for the selection of the sample of unrelated importers, the Commission may also contact any known associations of importers.
If a sample is necessary, the importers may be selected based on the largest representative volume of sales of the product under review from the PRC to the Union that can reasonably be investigated within the time available.
All known unrelated importers and associations of importers will be notified by the Commission of the companies selected to be in the sample.
The Commission will also add a note to the file for inspection by interested parties reflecting the sample selection.
Any comment on the sample selection must be received within 3 days of the date of notification of the sample decision.
In order to obtain the information it deems necessary for its investigation, the Commission will make available questionnaires to the sampled unrelated importers.
Those parties must submit a completed questionnaire within 30 days from the date of the notification of the sample selection, unless otherwise specified.
A copy of the questionnaire for unrelated importers is available in the file for inspection by interested parties and on DG Trade’s Internet: https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/investigations/case-view?caseId=2612
5.4.
Interested parties
In order to participate in the investigation, interested parties, such as producers in the country/ies concerned, Union producers, importers and their representative associations, users and their representative associations, trade unions and representative consumer organisations first have to demonstrate that there is an objective link between their activities and the product under review.
Producers in the country concerned, Union producers, importers and representative associations who made information available will be considered as interested parties if there is an objective link between their activities and the product under review.
Other parties will only be able to participate in the investigation as interested party from the moment they make themselves known, and provided that there is an objective link between their activities and the product under review.
Being considered as an interested party is without prejudice to the application of Article 18 of the basic Regulation.
Access to the file available for inspection for interested parties is made via Tron.tdi at the following address: https://tron. trade.ec.europa.eu/tron/TDI.
Please follow the instructions on that page to get access (11).
5.5.
Other written submissions
Subject to the provisions of this Notice, all interested parties are hereby invited to make their views known, submit information and provide supporting evidence.
Unless otherwise specified, this information and supporting evidence must reach the Commission within 37 days of the date of publication of this Notice.
5.6.
Possibility to be heard by the Commission investigation services
All interested parties may request to be heard by the Commission investigation services.
Any request to be heard must be made in writing and must specify the reasons for the request as well as a summary of what the interested party wishes to discuss during the hearing.
The hearing will be limited to the issues set out by the interested parties in writing beforehand.
(11) In case of technical problems please contact the Trade Service Desk by Email: trade-service-desk@ec.europa.eu or by Tel.
+32 22979797.