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

Article 1 shall apply for a period of six months.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 May 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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

( 2 ) Notice of initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of certain heavyweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea ( OJ C 342, 10.10.2019, p. 8 ).

( 3 ) The data from the sampled Union companies in this regulation is presented in ranges because of the risk that any sampled company reverse-engineers its competitors’ data, especially given that two of the three sampled companies are related since 29 March 2019 and that they started to operate as intra-group companies as from 6 August 2019. The data from the sole cooperating exporting producer are given in ranges as it is the only company that cooperated.

( 4 ) Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2235 of 12 December 2016 amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as regards bisphenol A. OJ L 337, 13.12.2016, p. 3 .

( 5 ) The exact figure is not provided as this is company-specific data.

( 6 ) See for example paragraph 68 of Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber), 17 March 2015 in Case T-466/12, RFA International, LP v European Commission.

( 7 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/763 of 2 May 2017 imposing a definitive antidumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea ( OJ L 114, 3.5.2017, p. 3 ), recital 91.

( 8 ) Estimates from the complainant.

( 9 ) ODB2 is used in different quantities depending on the composition of the coating applied.

( 10 ) Source : Commission’s investigation.

( 11 ) While prices increased by 14 %, production costs increased by 23 % (Table 7).

( 12 ) Anti-dumping measures are currently applicable on imports of LWTP from Korea, which have re-established a level playing field.

( 13 ) Source : Complainant and Commission’s investigation results.

( 14 ) BPA-containing paper is cheaper to produce and is therefore also usually priced cheaper than papers containing other developers.

( 15 ) Source : Complainant and Commission’s investigation.

( 16 ) European Commission, Directorate-General for Trade, Directorate H, Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/705 of 26 May 2020 imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain heavyweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea