1.The hearing officer shall act on request by interested parties, the member of the Commission responsible for trade policy, the Director-General, the Director responsible of a trade proceeding or his delegate, or a Director of other services consulted on a trade proceeding.
2.The hearing officer may intervene at any moment of a trade proceeding with due regard to the time constraints of such a proceeding.
3.The hearing officer shall be bound by the deadlines applied in trade proceedings in accordance with the basic Regulations.
4.Any final legal act or proposal of the Commission shall be accompanied by a note from the hearing officer stating whether he intervened in the proceeding concerned and what was the nature of his intervention.