{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-339/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-339/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/339",
  "legislation_title": "Decision (EU) 2019/339 of the President of the European Commission of 21 February 2019 on the function and terms of reference of the hearing officer in certain trade proceedings",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-339",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Follow-up on hearings",
  "text": "1. Where hearings among interested parties with different interests are organised, the hearing officer shall produce a transcript or a meaningful summary of the hearing and shall make it available to all participants in the hearing. The transcript or meaningful summary shall be included in the file open for consultation by interested parties.\nWhere hearings between an individual interested party or a group of interested parties with similar interests and the Commission services are organised, the hearing officer shall produce a transcript or a meaningful summary of the hearing and shall make it available to all participants in the hearing. Those participants may submit a reasoned request for confidentiality of certain information contained in the transcript or the summary. The hearing officer shall decide on the requests after hearing the Commission services responsible for the investigation and where necessary other services. The non-confidential version of the transcript or summary of the hearing shall be included in the file for consultation by interested parties.\n2. The hearing officer may convey recommendations to the Commission services responsible for the investigation in accordance with Article 4(5). The Commission services responsible for the investigation shall inform the hearing officer within a reasonable period of time before the adoption of a final legal act whether and how they have taken those recommendations into account and shall provide the hearing officer with a copy of the draft legal act.\n3. The hearing officer shall inform the member of the Commission responsible for trade policy without delay about hearings with individual parties or a group of interested parties with similar interests as provided for in Article 18. If the case so requires, the hearing officer shall submit an immediate recommendation to the member of the Commission responsible for trade policy or the Director-General.\n4. In principle, recommendations made by the hearing officer to the Commission services responsible for the investigation, and reports and observations to the member of the Commission responsible for trade policy and the Director-General, shall be considered confidential internal documents.\nHowever, in the interest of transparency and good administration, the hearing officer shall decide which documents, originating from the hearing officer, are to be included in the file open for inspection to parties.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/339/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:48.806143+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}