
Article 1 
The Union of Myanmar's access to the tariff preferences granted by Regulation (EC) No 3281/94 and Regulation (EC) No 1256/96 is hereby temporarily withdrawn.
Article 2 
The Council, acting by qualified majority, on a proposal from the Commission, shall bring the application of this Regulation to an end in the light of a Commission report on forced labour in Myanmar, showing that the practices mentioned in Article 9 (1), first indent of Regulation (EC) No 3281/94 and Article 9 (1), first indent of Regulation (EC) No 1256/96 which have caused the withdrawal of access to generalized tariff preferences from Myanmar no longer exist.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall not apply to products proven to have been dispatched to the European Community before that date.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 24 March 1997.
For the Council
The President
H. VAN MIERLO