Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 4 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 732/2008
Article 18 - paragraph 3
xx(4a) Article 18(3) is replaced by the following: “3. The Commission shall seek all information it considers necessary, including the available assessments, comments, decisions, recommendations and conclusions of the relevant supervisory bodies of the UN, the ILO and other competent international organisations. These submissions shall be made public, in the interests of transparency, and shall serve as the starting point for the investigation into whether temporary withdrawal is justified for the reason referred to in Article 15(1)(a). The Commission may verify the information received with economic operators and the beneficiary country concerned.”