Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Cost and Supply of Fertiliser in the European Union: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Mr. Fabien Santini:
I am fully aware of the anti-dumping suspension requests. A review of this could work. I explained to Senator Lombard that the exchange of information between the parties at stake is, I hope, finished, but I am not sure. The last submission of data from the parties was last Friday.
I do not know what this answer to Mr. MacManus MEP refers to. I am not aware of another exercise on this. For the Deputy's information, we know that some member states have invoked the idea of suspending the duties themselves, not the anti-dumping duties, which are 6.5% ad valorem. This is a commonly existing procedure. You can ask a certain custom committee for a certain procedure - a not normal suspension of duties for a variety of reasons.