# Regulation (EU) 2015/755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on common rules for imports from certain third countries (recast), Article 7

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Where the Union's interests so require, the Commission may, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative:
(a) decide to introduce retrospective Union surveillance of certain imports, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Commission;
(b) 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.
2. Decisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be taken by the Commission in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
3. 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/755/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-755/article-7
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