24.5.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 136/99 COMMISSION DECISION of 23 May 2011 granting certain parties an exemption from the extension to certain bicycle parts of the anti- dumping duty on bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 247493, last maintained and amended by Regulation (EC) No 1095/2005, lifting the suspension and revoking the exemption of the payment of the anti-dumping duty extended to certain bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China granted to certain parties pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (notified under document C(2011) 3543) (2011/304/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 of 30 November 2009 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (') (the ‘basic Regulation’), Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 (3) (the ‘extending Regulation’), extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 (%) on bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China to imports of certain bicycle parts from the People’s Republic of China, and levying the extended duty on such imports registered under Regulation (EC) No 703/96, Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 of 20 January 1997 on the authorisation of the exemption of imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China from the extension by Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the anti-dumping duty imposed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 () (the ‘exemption Regulation’), and in particular Article 7 thereof, After consulting the Advisory Committee, Whereas: (1) After the entry into force of the exemption Regulation, a number of bicycle assemblers submitted requests pursuant to Article 3 of that Regulation for exemption from the anti-dumping duty as extended to imports of certain bicycle parts from the People’s Republic of China by Regulation (EC) No 71/97 (the ‘extended anti- dumping duty). The Commission has published in the OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51. () OJ L 16, 18.1.1997, p. 55. OJ L 228, 9.9.1993, p. 1. Regulation as maintained by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2000 (O] L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 39) and amended by Regulation (EC) No 1095/2005 (O] L 183, 14.7.2005, p. 1). (* OJL 17, 21.1.1997, p. 17. Official Journal successive lists of bicycle assemblers (°) for which the payment of the extended anti-dumping duty in respect of their imports of essential bicycle parts declared for free circulation was suspended pursuant to Article 5(1) of the exemption Regulation. (2)  Following the last publication of the list of parties under examination (%), a main period of examination has been selected. This period was defined as from 1 January 2010 to 31 August 2010. Further information from the years 2008 and 2009 were also requested. A questionnaire was sent to all parties which were to be evaluated, requesting information on the assembly operations conducted during the relevant period of examination. (3)  The Commission was also informed of the liquidation of two companies which were exempted from the extended anti-dumping duty on bicycle parts. Furthermore, a further company failed to comply with the conditions of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97. For these companies the exemption will be revoked. A. REQUESTS FOR EXEMPTION FOR WHICH SUSPENSION WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED A.1. Acceptable requests for exemption (4)  The Commission received from the parties listed in table 1 below all the information required for the deter- mination of the admissibility of their requests. These parties had already received their suspension with effect from the day of arrival of a first complete application dossier at the Commission’s premises. The newly requested and provided information was examined and verified, where necessary, at the premises of the parties concerned. Based on this information, the Commission found that the requests submitted by the parties listed in table 1 below are admissible pursuant to Article 4(1) of the exemption Regulation. () O] C 45, 13.2.1997, p. 3, O] C 112, 10.4.1997, p. 9, O] C 220, 19.7.1997, p. 6, O] C 378, 13.12.1997, p. 2, 0] C 217, 11.7.1998, p.9, 0] C 37, 11.2.1999, p. 3, O] C 186, 2.7.1999, p. 6, O] C 216, 28.7.2000, p. 8, O] C 170, 14.6.2001, p. 5, O] C 103, 30.4.2002, p. 2, 0] C 35, 14.2.2003, p. 3, O] C 43, 22.2.2003, p. 5, O] C 54, 2.3.2004, p. 2, O] C 299, 4.12.2004, p. 4, O] L 17, 21.1.2006, p. 16 and O] L 313, 14.11.2006, p. 5., O] L 81, 20.3.2008, p. 73., 0J C 310, 5.12.2008, p. 19., O] L 19, 23.1.2009, p. 62., O] L 314, 1.12.2009, p. 106. () O] L 314, 1.12.2009, p. 106.