Safeguard investigations: public notice, participation rights, and evidence sharing shape procedural compliance and findings.

The Authorised Officer must issue a public notice when initiating a safeguard investigation, identifying exporting countries, goods, import volumes, initiation date, factual basis and reasons, forwarding the notice and application to the Central Government, ministries, known exporters and exporting country governments, and making the application available on request. The Officer may call for information with written deadlines and extensions, treat documents as received one week after transmission, allow industrial users and consumer organisations to submit relevant views, permit oral presentations subject to written filing, share evidence among parties, and, where information is withheld or delayed, base findings on the facts available and recommend measures to the Central Government.

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