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". – Mr President, despite the support given by the European Parliament last November and the Commission's expectations for a successful outcome of the discussions in the Council, no decision on the temporary defence mechanism, TDM, was taken at the meeting of industry ministers in December last year.
On the request of European industry, the Commission has launched an update of its Trade Barrier Regulation investigation which has just been concluded. The Commission took note of the findings of the TBR report at its session on 7 May and authorised its transmission to the Council. The updated TBR report will be discussed by Member States at the TBR Committee on 29 May.
The updating investigation concludes that the findings of the first investigation as concerns the sectors of container ships and product and chemicals tankers were confirmed, namely that the Korean subsidies in question were causing adverse affects to the EU industry within the meaning of the WTO Subsidies Agreement.
As regards developments in 2001 in the LNG – natural gas carriers – sector, the updated TBR reports stresses the considerable increase in the Korean market shares and concludes that further examination is necessary to determine whether a consistent trend emerges over the longer term. The Commission will therefore continue to monitor the market.
The Commission's proposal on the temporary defence mechanism on which the European Parliament was consulted in November 2001, is provisionally planned to be discussed again during the next Industry Council meeting which is scheduled for 6 June. The Commission holds that a joint double response is necessary, that is the WTO complaint and the temporary defence mechanism. Furthermore, the Commission welcomes the common position agreed by OECD members in Paris to launch fresh discussions on a new agreement on shipbuilding involving major non-OECD shipbuilding nations.
The Commission considers that these are important steps towards addressing the problems raised by the Korean practices, both in connection with the TBR case and temporary defence mechanism and, in the long-term, the OECD agreement. It therefore intends to actively participate in these discussions and carefully evaluate developments. There were also other detailed questions, I can transmit some replies in the form of our annual report and after having discussed with my colleagues who are working with this file, Mr Lamy and Mr Monti."@en1
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