Conditions of intervention of the hearing officer – Timing – Information
Article 5
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.