Safeguard measures: Director General must investigate injury from imports and recommend measures, duration, with progressive liberalisation where prolonged. The Director General must investigate and report on serious injury or threat of serious injury to domestic industry from increased imports, identify the article subject to a safeguard measure, submit findings to the Central Government, recommend the measure's amount and duration, propose progressive liberalisation if the period exceeds one year, and review the need for continuance of the measure.