Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/671

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union^note, and in particular Article 13(4) thereof,Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of 10 January 1997 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^note and in particular Article 3 thereof,Having regard to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2146 of 22 October 2025 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of bicycles originating in the People’s Republic of China as extended to imports of bicycles consigned from Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Cambodia, Pakistan and the Philippines, whether declared as originating in these countries or not, following an expiry review pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note,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^note, and in particular Articles 4 to 7 thereof,After informing the Member States,Whereas:

(1)An anti-dumping duty applies on imports of essential bicycle parts originating in the People’s Republic of China (‘China’) (‘the extended duty’) as a result of the extension of the anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of bicycles originating in China by Regulation (EC) No 71/97.

(2)Under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 71/97, the Commission is empowered to adopt the necessary measures to authorise the exemption of imports of essential bicycle parts which do not circumvent the anti-dumping duty.

(3)Those implementing measures are set forth in Regulation (EC) No 88/97 (‘the exemption Regulation’), as amended, establishing the specific exemption system.

(4)On that basis the Commission has exempted a number of bicycle assemblers from the extended duty (‘the exempted parties’).

(5)By Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/611^note of 17 March 2023, the Commission published in the Official Journal of the European Union the list of the parties under examination and the updated list of the exempted parties.

(6)As provided for in Article 16(2) of the exemption Regulation, the Commission has published in the Official Journal of the European Union subsequent lists of the exempted parties. The most recent Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/110^note concerning exemptions under the exemption Regulation was adopted on 23 January 2025.

(7)For the purposes of this Decision, the definitions set out in Article 1 of the exemption Regulation apply.

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