Entry into force and period of application

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 until 31 August 2026.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 July 2023.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4 .

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

( 3 ) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1614 of 26 September 2019 authorising Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of potatoes, other than potatoes intended for planting, originating in the regions of Akkar and Bekaa of Lebanon ( OJ L 250, 30.9.2019, p. 85 ).

( 4 ) Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community ( OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1 ).

( 5 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 ( OJ L 319, 10.12.2019, p. 1 ).

( 6 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1194 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann & Kotthoff 1914) Nouioui et al. 2018 ( OJ L 185, 12.7.2022, p. 47 ).

( 7 ) Glossary of Phytosanitary Terms – Reference Standard ISPM No 4 ‘Requirements for the establishment of pest free areas’ by the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention, Rome, 2017.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2023/1572 of 25 July 2023 establishing a derogation from Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 concerning the introduction into the Union territory of tubers of ANNEX