L 142/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.6.1999 COMMISSION DECISION of 4 June 1999 terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of ferro-silicon originating in Egypt and Poland (notified under document number C(1999) 1466) (1999/366/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Definitive anti-dumping measures were also 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 Community ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 905/98 (%), and in particular Articles 9 and 10 thereof, After Consulting the Advisory Committee, Whereas: A. PROCEDURE 1. Measures in force Anti-dumping duties of 32 % on imports of ferro- silicon originating in Egypt and Poland have been in force since 1992, when definitive anti-dumping duties were imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3642/92 (}). The duties did not apply to exports by one Egyptian and one Polish exporting producer from which price undertakings were accepted by the Commission by Decisions 92/ 331/EEC (*) and 92/572/EEC (%) respectively. As regards other anti-dumping measures currently in force, definitive anti-dumping measures on ferro-silicon were imposed against Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Norway, Iceland, Brazil and Vene- zuela by Council Regulation (EC) No 3359/93 (¥) in December 1993. Measures on imports from Iceland and Norway were suspended with the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 5/94 of 22 December 1993 on the suspension of anti- dumping measures against EFTA countries from 1 January 1994 (7). Measures on imports from Brazil were partially reviewed and, by Council Regulation (EC) No 351/98 (®) the duty on two DBrazilian exporting producers was reduced to 0 % because of a finding of no dumping. 56, 631996, p. 1. 128, 30.4.1998, p. 18. 369, 18.12.1992, p. 1. 183, 3.7.1992, p. 40. 369, 18.12.1992, p. 32. 302, 9.12.1993, p. 1. 3, 5.1.1994, p. 1. 42, 14.2.1998, p. 1. N Lol P By - 00000000 = == | onll ol onll onll anl ol ol ot 3 = 1 (1 0J imposed against imports from China and South Africa by Council Regulation (EC) No 621/94 (°) in March 1994. 2. Request for Review Following the publication of the notice of impending expiry (*°) of the anti-dumping meas- ures, the complainant in the original investigation, the Liaison Committee of the Ferro-Alloy Industry (‘Euroalliages’, hereinafter ‘the applicant’), requested an expiry review of the measures pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96 (herein- after the ‘basic Regulation’). Having determined, after consultation of the Advisory Committee, that sufficient evidence existed for the initiation of an expiry review, the Commission published a notice of initiation in the Official Journal of the European Communities (*!) and commenced the investigation. 3. Investigation The investigation of dumping covered the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 (hereinafter the ‘investigation period’). The examination of injury covered the period from 1993 up to the end of the investigation period. At the time of the original investigation, the Community industry on behalf of which the complaint was lodged consisted of six producers; Pechiney Electrometallurgie, France; SKW Trost- berg AG, Germany; Ferrolegierungswerk Lippen- dorf GmbH, Germany; Carburos Metalicos, Spain; Industria Elettrica Indel Spa, Italy; and Utilizzaz- zioni Elettro Industriali UEI, Italy. After the imposition of the measures under review, the structure of the Community industry changed as a result, on the one hand, of the accession of the new Member States, and, on the other, of economic L 77, 19.3.1994, p. 48. C 387, 21.12.1996, p. 3. C 204, 4.7.1997, p. 2.