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

It shall apply from 1 January 2023.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 November 2022.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1 .

( 2 ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2156 of 17 September 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the European Union reference laboratory for Rift Valley fever ( OJ L 436, 7.12.2021, p. 26 ).

( 3 ) Regulation (EU) 2021/690 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing a programme for the internal market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and European statistics (Single Market Programme) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 99/2013, (EU) No 1287/2013, (EU) No 254/2014 and (EU) No 652/2014 ( OJ L 153, 3.5.2021, p. 1 ).

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/2304 of 24 November 2022 designating the European Union reference laboratory for Rift Valley fever