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(iii) The Investigating Authority is required to provide the verification agenda
well in advance. The purpose of providing this agenda in advance of the
verification is to allow subject member countries to brief the appropriate
government personnel on the items to be covered and the type of records/
evidence required to verify each item;

(iv) Verification is only done for the information which is already submitted with
the Investigating Authority. No new submission is accepted at the time of
verification, except minor corrections;
(v) Separate questions are provided for each scheme, for which the information
is already submitted with the investigating Authority in the questionnaire
responses;
(vi) The Investigation Team may request for certain information to be submitted
as exhibits, during verification which are taken on record. All the documents
submitted should be exhibited and numbered;

(vii) After Verification, the Investigating Authority issues a Verification Report to
the respective respondents so verified, which includes the submissions and
discussions of the verification ;
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20.72 The detailed methodology and guidance for undertaking verification in
AD investigations as given in Chapter 8 of this manual may also be followed for
verification in CVD cases.
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ORAL HEARING

20.73 Article 12.2 of the SCM Agreement and Rule 7 (6) of the CVD Rules require
that before the finalization of the disclosure statement, an oral hearing is to be
granted before the Authority to give the opportunity to all the stakeholders including
the Embassy/Government of the respective subject countries, for presenting their
case, making oral submissions and with a view to protecting their interest. This gives
an opportunity to all the stakeholders to present the explanation of their views and
evidence before the Authority orally. This right of the parties is subject to justification
to present information orally. As per the SCM Agreement, the interested parties
may request for hearing to present their views orally.

31 See Panel Report, European Union - Countervailing Measures on Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate from Pakistan,
WTO Doc. WT/DS486/R (July 6, 2017).Corresponding to Article 9 of the SCM Agreement
32 Details also given in Annex-VI of the SCM Agreement

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