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Ref.: EIC 230/2/3/2/13

8 May 2018

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 433/2018

European Union (EU)* : Registration of electric bicycles originating in the Mainland of China

Further to Commercial Information Circulars Nos. 985/2017 of 9 November 2017 and 1193/2017 of 22 December 2017, the European Commission (the Commission) has published an implementing regulation making the imports of electric bicycles originating in the Mainland of China subject to registration for nine months from 4 May 2018.  The regulation is available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0671&from=EN.

2.The Commission considers that there is sufficient evidence to justify making the imports of the product subject to registration, so that measures may subsequently be applied against those imports from the date of such registration.

3.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -

4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.

Yours faithfully,

(Manus LUI)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.