This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 November 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21 .

( 2 ) OJ C 166, 14.5.2020, p. 9 .

( 3 ) See judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 8 May 2019 in T-749/16, Stemcor vs European Commission, paragraph 56.

( 4 ) See judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 8 May 2019 in T-749/16, Stemcor vs European Commission, paragraph 33.

( 5 ) The investigation period (IP) covered the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.

( 6 ) Imports from Turkey of the product concerned are subject to safeguard measures since mid-July 2018 (under product category 1). Tariff-Rate Quota’s (‘TRQs’) under the safeguard measures are administered quarterly. Therefore, by comparing the same periods, the trend will be less impacted by the numerous changes to the TRQ administration that took place throughout the investigation period which is a full year (2019), as Turkey was subject to three different regimes under the TRQ administration system in the course of the year 2019.

( 7 ) The Commission noted that for the product concerned, the summer period shows consistently a decline in consumption as compared to the period prior to it. The periods used by the Commission in this case would thus remove any distortion as far as possible seasonality effects are concerned.

( 8 ) In fact, the average import volumes in these months is more than twice the average import volumes of the remaining nine months in the year 2019.

( 9 ) This comparison is considered more appropriate, see recitals 17 to 21 above.

( 10 ) Until the next country-specific TRQ batch was available.

( 11 ) Consortium of HRFS users.

( 12 ) Colakoglu and Erdemir Groups.

( 13 ) Eurofer’s request for registration only considered data for the months of June and July 2020.

( 14 ) This is, when the import data for the relevant period to be assessed for determining whether a retroactive collection of duties is warranted or not, is available.

( 15 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/894 of 29 June 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 imposing definitive safeguard measures against imports of certain steel products ( OJ L 206, 30.6.2020, p. 27 ).

( 16 ) Subject to a 25 % duty until the opening of the next batch of TRQs in the next quarter.

( 17 ) Those corresponding to the quarters October-December 2020 and January-March 2021 respectively.

( 18 ) Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC ( OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39 ).

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/1686 of 12 November 2020 making imports of certain hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel originating in Turkey subject to registration