Regulation 22 WarningI1

United Kingdom

(1)

When publishing a warning in accordance with regulation 21(1)(a), the Secretary of State must include—

(a)

details of the circumstances leading the Secretary of State to consider taking a specified action;

(b)

the period within which representations may be made (“the representations period”) by—

(i)

a qualifying DCTS country;

(ii)

an interested party, where the specified action being considered is the suspension of a country from the DCTS, or the suspension or variation of DCTS rates on specified DCTS goods originating from a qualifying DCTS country under regulations 16(5) or 17(1);

(iii)

a person or persons affected as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 4, where the specified action being considered is the application of a trade preference safeguard measure under regulation 19;

(c)

the specified action or actions the Secretary of State may take after an assessment is carried out.

(2)

The Secretary of State may—

(a)

publish more than one warning (whether or not at the same time);

(b)

specify different actions under paragraph (1)(c) in such warning.

(3)

A warning is valid for a period which—

(a)

begins with the day on which the warning is published;

(b)

ends with the day on which the outcome of the assessment is published.

(4)

For the purpose of this regulation a warning is published when it is posted electronically on https://www.gov.uk.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 22 in force at 19.6.2023, see reg. 1(2)