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, 29 March 2021.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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

( 2 ) OJ C 316, 24.9.2020, p. 10 .

( 3 ) Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 8 May 2019, Stemcor London Ltd and Samac Steel Supplies Ltd v European Commission, Case T-749/16, para. 74.

( 4 ) Id . para. 46.

( 5 ) This data refers to export to EU27.

( 6 ) Please refer to: https://hts.usitc.gov/view/China%20Tariffs?release=2020HTSARev16

( 7 ) 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 ).

( 8 ) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ( OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1 ), Annex I ‘Combined Nomenclature’.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/548 of 29 March 2021 making imports of optical fibre cables originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration