COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2649/98 of 9 December 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 2107/98 imposing provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of polypropylene binder or baler twine originating in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Saudi Arabia and accepting undertakings offered by certain exporters in connection with those imports

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 905/98 (2), and in particular Article 8(1) thereof,

After consulting the Advisory Committee,

Whereas:

A. PREVIOUS PROCEDURE

(1) The Commission, by Regulation (EC) No 2107/98 (3), imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on imports into the Community of polypropylene binder or baler twine originating in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Saudi Arabia, and accepted undertakings offered by certain exporters in connection with those imports.

B. AMENDMENT

(2) Following the imposition of the provisional anti-dumping duties, the Czech producer Juta a.s., Dvur Kralove nad Labem, offered an undertaking pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 384/96, and requested that it should be treated in the same way as Hungarian producers from which price undertakings have been accepted by Regulation (EC) No 2107/98. The Commission considered that the undertaking offered by the Czech producer was acceptable,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The undertaking offered by Juta a.s., Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic, in connection with the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of polypropylene binder or baler twine originating, inter alia in the Czech Republic, and falling within CN code ex 5607 41 00 (TARIC code 5607 41 00*10), is hereby accepted.

Article 2

Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2107/98 shall be replaced by the following:

'3. Imports made within the context of the undertakings offered and accepted shall be declared under the following TARIC additional codes:

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Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1998.

For the Commission

Leon BRITTAN

Vice-President

(1) OJ L 56, 6. 3. 1996, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 128, 30. 4. 1998, p. 18.

(3) OJ L 267, 2. 10. 1998, p. 7.