Brussels, 10/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is to reassess anti-dumping measures applicable to imports of ethalanolamines originating in the US and urea originating in Russia. Announcing the launch of the measures in Official Journal C140, it explains that "the current measures in the form a specific anti-dumping duty do not cater for situations in which imported goods have been damaged before entry into free circulation. In this respect it should be noted that the measures should not go beyond what is necessary for the removal of injury" (the measures were introduced in July 2000); and "the current measures in the form of a minimum import price" for urea originating in Russia "do not differentiate between sales made to related parties and sales made to unrelated parties, or between first sales and successive sales to the Community". The EU has changed the anti-dumping measures that have been in application since January 2002 on the import of urea from Byelorussia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Libya, Romania and the Ukraine, after accepting the revised commitments made by a Lithuanian operator. The Regulation in which the Council gave its agreement (taken by qualified majority voting since Spain disagreed) points out that the Lithuanian company, Joint Stock Company Achema, promised to respect the minimum price set for urea and specific prices for the other fertilisers it exports to the single market and its pledge had been accepted: "The revisions introduced to the undertaking offer eliminate the injurious effect of dumping and seriously limit any risk of circumvention in the form of cross-compensation with other products" (L168). The anti-subsidy measures applicable since 1999 on imports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film originating in India are being reviewed since an Indian exporter, Polyplex Corporation, has made an offer that may remove the injurious effects of subsidisation (published in a Notice of Initiation in OJ C154).