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, 15 November 2022.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1 .

( 2 ) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1918 of 28 October 2016 concerning certain safeguard measures in relation to chronic wasting disease ( OJ L 296, 1.11.2016, p. 21 ).

( 3 ) EFSA Journal 2017;15(1):4667.

( 4 ) Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972 of 30 October 2017 amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a surveillance programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden and repealing Commission Decision 2007/182/EC ( OJ L 281, 31.10.2017, p. 14 ).

( 5 ) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2181 of 21 November 2017 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1918 concerning certain safeguard measures in relation to chronic wasting disease ( OJ L 307, 23.11.2017, p. 58 ).

( 6 ) EFSA Journal 2019;17(11)5863.

( 7 ) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2167 of 17 December 2020 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1918 concerning certain safeguard measures in relation to chronic wasting disease by extending its period of application ( OJ L 431, 21.12.2020, p. 70 ).

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2022/2246 of 15 November 2022 amending Annexes VIII and IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards chronic wasting disease in live cervids ANNEX