No L 150/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 7. 6. 97 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1023/97 of 6 June 1997 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on certain imports of flat pallets of wood originating in Poland and accepting undertakings offered from certain exporters in connection with those imports THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Com- munity ('), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2331/96 (3, and in particular Articles 7 and 8 thereof, After consulting the Advisory Committee, Whereas: A. PROCEDURE (1)  In July 1995, the Commission announced, by a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Communities(*), the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of flat pallets of wood originating in Poland. The proceeding was initiated as a result of a complaint lodged by Anton Heggenstaller AR, Unterbernbach/Bayern, Germany, specifically on behalf of the Federation des fabricants de palettes et emballages en bois (FEFPEB), which in turn acts on behalf of all its member associations of prod- ucers in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and also on behalf of several individual Community producers. The complaint contained evidence of dumping of the product concerned originating in Poland and of material injury resulting therefrom which was considered sufficient to justify the initi- ation of a proceeding. (2) The Commission officially advised the producers, exporters and importers known to be concerned, the representatives of the exporting country and the complainants, of the initiation of an investiga- tion; it gave the parties directly concerned the opportunity to make their views known in writing and to request a hearing. (3)  Sampling of exporters and Community producers has been applied in view of the large number of () OJ No L 56, 6. 3. 1996, p. 1. () OJ No L 317, 6. 12. 199, p. 1. () OJ No C 178, 13. 7. 1995, p. 6. ©) economic operators concerned. The Commission sent questionnaires to the companies selected for the sample of exporters, to exporters who have requested individual treatment, to an importer in the Community related to those exporters and to the companies selected for the sample of Com- munity producers. The Commission verified all the information it deemed necessary for the purpose of a preliminary determination and carried out investigations at the premises of a number of producers in the Com- munity and producers/exporters in Poland as well as at the premises of an importer in the Com- munity related to Polish exporters. The producers/ exporters in Poland and the related importer in the Community investigated are listed below: (a) producers/exporters in Poland: — PPHU Alpa, Spolka z 0 0, Dobrzyca, — PPHiU Eldagran, Slawoborze, — Intur-Kfs, Spolka z o o, Inowroclaw, — ZPH Palettenwerk Kazimierz Kozik, Bystra Podhalanska, — Paletex, Roman Panasiuk, Warsaw, — PPHU Palimex, Spolka z o o, Wloszakowice, — RSP Rzecko, Choszczno, — Sabelmar Import-Export, Konczyce Male, — Tor-Pal, Spolka z o o, Kwidzyn, — ZPPD, Zielona Gors; (b) importer in the Community ~ — Pallettenservice Brigitte Moncke, Hamburg, Germany. In view of the magnitude of the Community indus- try's negative situation determined during the injury investigation, it did not appear appropriate to single out those companies which were particip- ating in the sample of Community producers (see below recitals 33 and 34) by specifying their names in this Regulation. This could damage their commercial relationship with regard to their cus- tomers and suppliers. The investigation of dumping covered the period from 1 January 1994 to 31 December 1994 (‘the investigation period’). The examination of injury covered the period from 1 January 1991 to the end of the investigation period.