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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-199/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/199",
  "legislation_title": "Decision of the President of the European Commission of 29 February 2012 on the function and terms of reference of the hearing officer in certain trade proceedings (2012/199/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-199",
  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Conditions of intervention of the hearing officer – Timing – Information",
  "text": "1. The hearing officer shall act on request by interested parties, the member of the Commission responsible for trade policy, the Director-General, the Director responsible of a trade proceeding or his delegate, or a Director of other services consulted on a trade proceeding.\n2. The hearing officer may intervene at any moment of a trade proceeding with due regard to the time constraints of such a proceeding.\n3. The hearing officer shall be bound by the deadlines applied in trade proceedings in accordance with the basic Regulations.\n4. Any final legal act or proposal of the Commission shall be accompanied by a note from the hearing officer stating whether he intervened in the proceeding concerned and what was the nature of his intervention.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/199/article/5",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}