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  "legislation_title": "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)",
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  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 18 March 2008\ngranting 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\n(notified under document number C(2008) 1044)\n(2008/260/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving 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 (the ‘basic Regulation’),\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 (the ‘extending Regulation’), extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by 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,\nHaving regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (the ‘exemption Regulation’) 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, and in particular Article 7 thereof,\nAfter consulting the Advisory Committee,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nAfter 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 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.\n(2)\nFollowing the last publication of the list of parties under examination, 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.\nA.\nREQUESTS FOR EXEMPTION FOR WHICH SUSPENSION WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED\nA.1.\nAcceptable requests for exemption\n(3)\nThe 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 Regulation.\nTable 1\nName\nAddress\nCountry\nTARIC additional code\nAlubike — Bicicletas S.A.\nZona Industrial de Oia, Lote C-10,\n3770-059 Oliveira do Bairro\nPortugal\nA730\nBalkanvelo AD\n1 Mizia Blvd., 5500 Lovech\nBulgaria\nA811\nBonaventure BVBA\nStoomtuigstraat 16, 8830 Hooglede\nBelgium\nA732\nCROSS Ltd.\n1 Hadji Dimitar Street, 3400 Montana\nBulgaria\nA810\nSC Eurosport DHS SA\nSantuhalm Street 35A, Deva, dept. Hunedoara\nRomania\nA817\nF.lli Schiano S.R.L.\nVia Carmelo Pezzullo 20,\n80027 Frattamaggiore (NA)\nItaly\nA824\nGoldbike — Industria de Bicicletas Lda\nR. Flores, 3780 594 Poutena-Vilarinho do Bairro\nPortugal\nA777\nHelkama Velox Oy\nSantalantie 22, 10960 Hanko Pohjoinen\nFinland\nA825\nIng. Jaromír Březina\nFoglarova 2896/11, 787 01 Šumperk\nCzech Republic\nA776\nKHE Fahrradhandels GmbH\nGablonzer Strasse 10, 76185 Karlsruhe\nGermany\nA794\nKoga BV.\nTinweg 9, 8445 PD Heerenveen\nThe Netherlands\nA773\nRijwielen en Bromfietsenfabriek L'Avenir NV\nPosthoornstraat 1, 2500 Lier\nBelgium\nA826\nLeader — 96 Ltd.\n19 Sedianka Str., 4003 Plovdiv\nBulgaria\nA813\nLook Cycle International S.A.\n27, rue du Dr. Léveillé, 58000 Nevers\nFrance\nA781\nMaxcom Ltd.\n13 Peshtersko shousse Str., 4000 Plovdiv\nBulgaria\nA812\nPrestige Rijwielen NV\nZuiderdijk 25, 9230 Wetteren\nBelgium\nA737\nPuky GmbH & Co. KG\nFortunastrasse 11, 42489 Wülfrath\nGermany\nA778\nRobifir Bike Ltd.\n3A Kosta Bosilkov Street,\n2700 Blagoevgrad\nBulgaria\nA815\nSkeppshultcykeln AB\nStorgatan 78, 333 03 Skeppshult\nSweden\nA745\nStevens Vertriebs GmbH\nAsbrookdamm 35, 22115 Hamburg\nGermany\nA774\nTrenga DE Vertriebs GmbH\nGrossmoordamm 63—67,\n21079 Hamburg\nGermany\nA746\nVelomania Ltd.\nDimitar Nestorov Street bl. 120,\n1612 Sofia\nBulgaria\nA814\n(4)\nThe 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 Regulation.\n(5)\nFor 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.\n(6)\nIn 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.\n(7)\nIt 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:\nLeader-96 Ltd. transferred its registered office from 3 Mostova Str., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria to 19 Sedianka Str., 4003 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.\n(8)\nIt 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.\nA.2.\nUnacceptable requests for exemption and withdrawals\n(9)\nThe parties listed in table 2 below also submitted requests for exemption from the extended anti-dumping duty.\nTable 2\nName\nAddress\nCountry\nTARIC additional code\nIsaac International Ltd.\n4 Axis Park, P014 1FD Fareham Hants, Hampshire\nUnited Kingdom\nA816\nLoris Cycles di Perinel Lori\nVia delle Industrie 8, 30022 Ceggia (VE)\nItaly\nA731\nROG Kolesa d.d. (formerly ELAN Bikes d.d)\nLetališka 29, 1000 Ljubljana\nSlovenia\nA538\n(10)\nTwo parties withdrew their request for exemption and informed the Commission accordingly.\n(11)\nAnother party went bankrupt and consequently ceased the assembly activities.\n(12)\nSince 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.\nB.\nREQUESTS FOR EXEMPTION FOR WHICH SUSPENSION WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED\nB.1.\nInadmissible requests for exemption\n(13)\nThe parties listed in table 3 also submitted requests for exemption from the payment of the extended anti-dumping duty:\nTable 3\nName\nAddress\nCountry\nBBC International Biria Bike Company International GmbH\nMannheimer Strasse 80,\n68535 Edingen-Neckarhausen\nGermany\nEts. TH Brasseur SA\nRue des Steppes 13, 4000 Liège\nBelgium\nIndividual Bike s.r.o.\nKmochova 2430, 431 11 Chomutov\nCzech Republic\nShrapnell NV\nGroendreef 7, 9500 Geraardsbergen\nBelgium\n(14)\nWith 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.\n(15)\nThese 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.\nB.2.\nAdmissible requests for exemption for which suspension should be granted\n(16)\nInterested 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’:\nTable 4\nName\nAddress\nCountry\nSuspension pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 88/97\nDate of effect\nTARIC additional code\nBlue Ocean Hungary Ltd.\nSukorói u. 8,\n8097 Nadap\nHungary\nArticle 5\n30.1.2008\nA858\nCanyon Bicycles GmbH\nKoblenzer Strasse 236,\n56073 Koblenz\nGermany\nArticle 5\n4.12.2007\nA856\nEuro-Bike-Products\nUl. Starołęcka 18,\n61-361 Poznań\nPoland\nArticle 5\n6.8.2007\nA849\nEUSA Mart European Sales & Marketing GmbH & Co. KG\nAn der Welle 4, 60322 Frankfurt am Main\nGermany\nArticle 5\n7.1.2008\nA857\nKOVL spol. S.r.o.\nChoceradská 3042/20,\n141 00 Praha 4\nCzech Republic\nArticle 5\n29.3.2007\nA838\nMICPOL\nUl. Myśliborska 93A m. 62, 03-185 Warszawa\nPoland\nArticle 5\n17.4.2007\nA839\nN&W Cycle GmbH\nMühlenhof 5,\n51598 Friesenhagen\nGermany\nArticle 5\n11.10.2007\nA852\nRadsportvertrieb Dietmar Bayer GmbH\nZum Acker 1,\n56244 Freirachdorf\nGermany\nArticle 5\n25.6.2007\nA850\nSpecial Bike — Societa Cooperativa\nVia Nizza 20,\n71042 Cerignola (FG)\nItaly\nArticle 5\n22.1.2008\nA533\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
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