For the purpose of the dumping, injury and Community interest determinations, the geographical scope of the investigation was the Community of 15.

Since no comments on the methodology used for establishing the injury elimination level were received, this methodology is hereby confirmed.

The Commission sought and verified all the information it deemed necessary for the purpose of the determination of the likelihood of continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury and for the determination of the Community interest.

for non-genotoxic carcinogens, to identify the maximum dose eliciting no adverse effect (threshold dose).

The methodology used for establishing the injury margin as described in recitals 86 and 87 of the provisional Regulation is confirmed.

determination of long-term climatic situation (all plots) and potential damaging events/phenomena (limited number of plots)

The Commission sought and verified all the information it deemed necessary for the purpose of a determination of subsidy, injury, causality and Community interest.

For the purpose of determining the level of these duties, account was taken of the subsidy margins found and the amount of duty necessary to eliminate the injury sustained by the Community industry.

In the provisional Decision and for establishing the level of the duty, account was taken of the dumping margin found and the duty necessary to remove the injury caused by the dumped imports.

define and establish objectives for ambient air quality in the Community designed to avoid, prevent or reduce harmful effects on human health and the environment as a whole,

The term "classification" means the allocation of an appropriate level of security to information the unauthorised disclosure of which might cause a certain degree of prejudice to Commission or to Member State interests.

That authorisation to provide for derogations should be terminated if it is established that the specific conditions laid down in this Decision are not sufficient to prevent the introduction of harmful organisms into the Community or have not been complied with.

With regard to the calculation to determine the injury elimination level, the Commission considered it appropriate that the difference between actual selling prices of the exporters and a price which would allow the Community industry to achieve 15 % profit should be eliminated.

It has furthermore specified that fixing a prior upper limit may preclude effective compensation and that excluding an award of interest to compensate for the loss sustained is not allowed(13).

These consultations also result in high tariffs being set, at the expense of users, and are no longer essential for making interlining work, given the small number of agreements concerned and the fact that they are concluded essentially on a bilateral basis.

In identifying priority hazardous substances, account should be taken of the precautionary principle, relying in particular on the determination of any potentially adverse effects of the product and on a scientific assessment of the risk.

In the course of sampling and preparation of the samples precautions must be taken to avoid any changes which would affect the ochratoxin A content, adversely affect the analytical determination or make the aggregate samples unrepresentative.

In the course of sampling and preparation of the samples precautions must be taken to avoid any changes, which would affect the patulin content, adversely affect the analytical determination or make the aggregate samples unrepresentative.

Whereas the Commission has undertaken to submit proposals to the Council, not later than the end of 1988, regarding a further reduction of the limit values for the three pollutants which are the subject of this Directive and the fixing of limit values for particulate emissions,

It is necessary to lay down the details for the determination of the ratio of permanent pasture and agricultural land that has to be maintained and to provide for the individual obligations at the level of farmers to be respected where it is established that that proportion is decreasing to the detriment of land under permanent pasture.

General surveillance is largely based on routine observation ("look - see" approach) and should be used to identify the occurrence of unforeseen adverse effects of the GMO or its use for human health and the environment that were not predicted in the risk assessment.

The import into the Community of potatoes originating in Egypt was banned except where the potatoes originating in pest-free areas established in accordance with the FAO International standard for phytosanitary measures part 4: Pest surveillance - Requirements of the establishment of pest-free area.

For each substance notified in accordance with Article 7 (1), Article 8 (1) or Article 8 (2) of Directive 67/548/EEC, the competent authority shall carry out a risk assessment, the first stage of which shall be hazard identification which shall address, as a minimum, the properties and potential adverse effects specified in Annexes IA and IIA.

'risk characterization' is the estimation of the incidence and severity of the adverse effects likely to occur in a human population or environmental compartment due to actual or predicted exposure to a substance, and may include 'risk estimation', i.e, the quantification of that likelihood;

Member States may decide by common accord whether procedures are needed to ensure the smooth operation of the mutual-assistance arrangements provided for in this Regulation, in particular in order to avoid any interruption of surveillance of persons or goods where this might be prejudicial to the detection of operations in breach of customs and agricultural legislation.

For the purpose of establishing whether the Community industry had suffered injury and, in this context, for determining consumption and the various economic indicators related to the situation of the Community industry, it had to be examined whether injury and consumption should be assessed in relation to the total Community production or whether this analysis should focus on the production in the Community destined for the open market.

There is a need to investigate and report all potentially adverse effects found during routine toxicological investigations (including effects on organs and special systems such as immunotoxicity and neurotoxicity) and to undertake and report such additional studies which may be necessary to investigate the probable mechanism involved, to establish Noaels (no observed adverse effect levels), and to assess the significance of these effects.