
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 is hereby amended as follows:

((1)) Article 2(7) is amended as follows:

((a)) in the penultimate sentence of subparagraph (c) the words ‘shall be made within three months of the initiation of the investigation’ are replaced by the words ‘shall normally be made within seven months of, but in any event not later than eight months after, the initiation of the investigation’;
((b)) the following subparagraph is added:
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((d)) When the Commission has limited its examination in accordance with Article 17, a determination pursuant to subparagraphs (b) and (c) of this paragraph shall be limited to the parties included in the examination and any producer that receives individual treatment pursuant to Article 17(3).';
((2)) in Article 9(6), the first sentence is replaced by the following:
'When the Commission has limited its examination in accordance with Article 17, any anti-dumping duty applied to imports from exporters or producers which have made themselves known in accordance with Article 17 but were not included in the examination shall not exceed the weighted average margin of dumping established with respect to the parties in the sample, irrespective of whether the normal value for such parties is determined on the basis of Article 2(1) to (6) or subparagraph (a) of Article 2(7).'.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall apply to all new and to all pending investigations as from 15 December 2012.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Strasbourg, 12 December 2012.
For the European Parliament
The President
M. SCHULZ
For the Council
The President
A. D. MAVROYIANNIS