The Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports Causing Serious Injury to UK Producers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 449

PART 5 U.K. Initiation and conduct of an investigation

CHAPTER 1 U.K. General provisions and the use of information

Non-cooperation U.K.

20.—(1) Where the TRA determines that an interested party has failed to cooperate with an investigation or has otherwise significantly impeded the progress of an investigation (a “non-cooperative party”), it may disregard the information supplied by that party.

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), the TRA must not determine that an interested party is a non-cooperative party where it—

(a) determines that that interested party has acted to the best of their ability to cooperate with an investigation; or

(b) has accepted that compliance with any request for information to be supplied in a particular form would be unreasonably burdensome to that party.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 20 in force at 6.3.2019 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)-(8), see reg. 1(2)