2.12.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 459/7
2.2.
Questionnaires for Union users Union users are requested to fill in and submit the questionnaires, through their respective Union associations where appropriate, by 13 January 2023.
A template of the relevant questionnaire is available at: https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/investigations/case-view?
caseId=2645
2.3.
Written submissions In order to obtain all relevant information deemed necessary for the investigation, interested parties are hereby invited to make their views known, submit information and provide supporting evidence to the Commission.
This information and supporting evidence must reach the Commission by 13 January 2023.
2.4.
Possibility to comment on other parties’ submissions In order to guarantee the rights of defence, interested parties should have the possibility to comment on the information submitted by other interested parties.
When doing so, interested parties may only address the issues raised in the other interested parties’ submissions and may not raise new issues.
Such comments must reach the Commission within 7 days from the moment the submissions mentioned in paragraph 2.3 are made available for inspection by interested parties.
The Commission may also issue specific instructions on the structure of the rebuttals at a later stage in the proceeding.
In such case, the Commission would inform interested parties via a Note to the file in Tron accordingly.
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.
The outlined timeframe is without prejudice to the Commission’s right to request additional information from interested parties in duly justified cases.
Given the need to complete the review in a short timeframe – see Section 6.
Below – and the fact that interested parties will be given the possibility to comment on other parties’ submissions, which will ensure sufficient opportunities to defend their interests, the Commission will not organise hearings for the purpose of this investigation, unless exceptional circumstances so require.
2.5.
Submission of information and extension to time limits specified in this Notice As a rule, interested parties may only submit information within the timeframes specified in this Notice.
Any extension to the time limits provided for in this Notice can only be requested in exceptional circumstances and will only be granted if duly justified.
Duly justified exceptional extensions to the deadline to make submission will normally be limited to 3 additional days.
Interested parties are requested not to provide further information outside the periods set out in this Notice or in any further communication sent by the Commission.
In order to properly conclude the investigation on time, any submission, rebuttal or any other written document which does not respect the deadlines specified by the Commission may be disregarded.
2.6.
Instructions for making written submissions and correspondence Information submitted to the Commission for the purpose of trade defence proceeding shall be free from copyrights.
Interested parties, before submitting to the Commission information and/or data which is subject to third party copyrights, must request specific permission to the copyright holder explicitly allowing the Commission a) to use the information and data for the purpose of this trade defence proceeding and b) to provide the information and/or data to interested parties to this investigation in a form that allows them to exercise their rights of defence.