
Article 1 
An investigation is hereby initiated pursuant to Article 13(3), in order to determine if imports into the Union of peroxosulphates (persulphates), including potassium peroxymonosulphate sulphate, currently falling under CN codes 2833 40 00 and ex 2842 90 80 (TARIC code 2842 90 80 20), and originating in the People's Republic of China, imported under the TARIC additional code A820, are circumventing the measures imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1343/2013.
Article 2 

(1) The customs authorities of the Member States shall, pursuant to Article 13(3) and Article 14(5) of the basic Regulation, take the appropriate steps to register the imports into the Union identified in Article 1 of this Regulation.
(2) Registration shall expire nine months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
Article 3 

(1) Parties must make themselves known by contacting the Commission within 15 days from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
(2) If their comments are to be taken into account during the investigation, parties must present their views in writing and submit any other information within 37 days from the date of publication of this Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union, unless otherwise specified.
(3) Parties may also apply to be heard by the Commission within the same 37-day time-limit.
(4) Information submitted to the Commission for the purpose of trade defence investigations shall be free from copyrights. Before submitting to the Commission information and/or data which is subject to third party copyrights, parties must request specific permission to the copyright holder explicitly allowing a) the Commission to use the information and data for the purpose of this trade defence proceeding and b) to provide the information and/or data to parties to this investigation in a form that allows them to exercise their right of defence.
(5) All written submissions, including the information requested in this Regulation, completed questionnaires and correspondence provided by parties for which confidential treatment is requested shall be labelled ‘Limited’. Parties submitting information in the course of this investigation are invited to reason their request for confidential treatment.
(6) Parties providing ‘Limited’ information are required to furnish non-confidential summaries of it pursuant to Article 19(2) of the basic Regulation, which will be labelled ‘For inspection by interested parties’. Those summaries should be sufficiently detailed to permit a reasonable understanding of the substance of the information submitted in confidence.
(7) If a party providing confidential information fails to show good cause for a confidential treatment request or does not furnish a non-confidential summary of it in the requested format and quality, the Commission may disregard such information unless it can be satisfactorily demonstrated from appropriate sources that the information is correct.
(8) Interested parties are invited to make all submissions and requests via TRON.tdi (https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/tron/TDI), including scanned powers of attorney and certification sheets, with the exception of large replies, which shall be submitted on a CD-R or DVD by hand or by registered mail.In order to have access to TRON.tdi, interested parties need an EU Login account. Full instructions on how to register and use TRON.tdi are available on https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/tron/resources/documents/gettingStarted.pdf.By using TRON.tdi or email, interested parties express their agreement with the rules applicable to electronic submissions contained in the document ‘CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN TRADE DEFENCE CASES’ published on the website of the Directorate-General for Trade: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2011/june/tradoc_148003.pdf. The interested parties must indicate their name, address, telephone and a valid email address and they should ensure that the provided email address is a functioning official business email which is checked on a daily basis. Once contact details are provided, the Commission will communicate with interested parties by email only, unless they explicitly request to receive all documents from the Commission by another means of communication or unless the nature of the document to be sent requires the use of a registered mail. For further rules and information concerning correspondence with the Commission including principles that apply to submissions by email, interested parties should consult the communication instructions with interested parties referred to above.Commission address for correspondence:European CommissionDirectorate-General for TradeDirectorate HOffice: CHAR 04/0391049 BrusselsBELGIUMTRON.tdi: https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/tron/TDIEmail: TRADE-R707@ec.europa.eu
Article 4 
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 Brussels, 25 September 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER