30.3.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 115/11
Information concerning the assessment of Union interest must be provided within 37 days of the date of publication of this Notice unless otherwise specified.
This information may be provided either in a free format or by completing a questionnaire prepared by the Commission.
A copy of the questionnaires, including the questionnaire for users of the product under investigation, is available in the file for inspection by interested parties and on DG Trade’s website: https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/investigations/case-view?caseId=2661 The information submitted pursuant to Article 21 of the basic Regulation will only be taken into account if supported by factual evidence at the time of submission.
5.6.
Interested parties In order to participate in the investigation interested parties, such as exporting producers, Union producers, importers and their representative associations, users and their representative associations, trade unions and representative consumer organisations must demonstrate that there is an objective link between their activities and the product under investigation.
Exporting producers, Union producers, importers and representative associations who made information available in accordance to the procedures described in sections 5.3.1, 5.3.3 and 5.4 above will be considered as interested parties if there is an objective link between their activities and the product under investigation.
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 investigation.
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 (12).
5.7.
Possibility to be heard by the Commission investigation services All interested parties may request to be heard by the Commission's investigation services.
Any request for a hearing 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.
The timeframe for hearings is as follows: — For any hearings to take place before the deadline for the imposition of provisional measures, a request should be made within 15 days from the date of publication of this Notice.
The hearing will normally take place within 60 days of the date of publication of this Notice. — After the stage of provisional findings, a request should be made within 5 days from the date of the disclosure of the provisional findings or of the information document.
The hearing will normally take place within 15 days from the date of notification of the disclosure or the date of the information document. — At the stage of definitive findings, a request should be made within 3 days from the date of the final disclosure.
The hearing will normally take place within the period granted to comment on the final disclosure.
If there is an additional final disclosure, a request should be made immediately upon receipt of this additional final disclosure.
The hearing will then normally take place within the deadline to provide comments on this disclosure.
The outlined timeframe is without prejudice to the right of the Commission services to accept hearings outside the timeframe in duly justified cases and to the right of the Commission to deny hearings in duly justified cases.
Where the Commission services refuse a hearing request, the party concerned will be informed of the reasons for such refusal.
(12) In case of technical problems please contact the Trade Service Desk by email trade-service-desk@ec.europa.eu or by telephone +32 22979797.