Article 7
United Kingdom
Where the Union's interests so require, the Commission may, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative:
decide to introduce retrospective Union surveillance of certain imports, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Commission;
decide, for the purposes of monitoring the trend of these imports, to make certain imports subject to prior Union surveillance, in accordance with Article 8.
Decisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be taken by the Commission in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
The surveillance measures shall have a limited period of validity. Unless otherwise provided for, they shall cease to be valid at the end of the second six-month period following the six months in which the measures were introduced.