L 343/86 Official Journal of the European Union 23.12.2011 COMMISSION DECISION of 19 December 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 2474/93, 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) 9473) (2011/876/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 (?) (the ‘extending Regulation’), extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by Council 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 Commission Regulation (EC) No 703/96 (%), Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (%) (the ‘exemption Regulation’) on the authorisation of the exemption of imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China from the extension by Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of the anti-dumping duty imposed by Regulation (EEC) No 2474(93, 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 the exemption 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 Official Journal of the European Union OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 51. O] 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). (%) OJ L 98, 19.4.1996, p. 3. () OJ L 17, 21.1.1997, p. 17. 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 (7), a main period of examination has been selected. This period runs from 1 January 2011 to 31 July 2011. Additional information from the years 2009 and 2010 was also requested. A questionnaire requesting information on the assembly operations conducted during the relevant period was sent to all parties under examination. (3)  The Commission was also informed of the liquidation of one company which was exempted from the extended anti-dumping duty on bicycle parts. Furthermore, one company informed the Commission that it had stopped its assembly operations. 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 receipt by the Commission of a first complete request. 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, O] C 217, 11.7.1998, p- 9,0 C37,11.2.1999, 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, O] 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 OJ L 313, 14.11.2006, p. 5, OJ L 81, 20.3.2008, p. 73, OJ 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 136, 24.5.2011, p. 99. () OJ L 136, 24.5.2011, p. 99.