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

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

Done at Brussels, 26 April 2023.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1 .

( 2 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 of 16 March 2023 laying down special disease control measures for African swine fever and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/605 ( OJ L 79, 17.3.2023, p. 65 ).

( 3 ) In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Regulation references to Member States include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.

( 4 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/835 of 19 April 2023 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 as regards special disease control measures for African swine fever ( OJ L 105, 20.4.2023, p. 9 ).

( 5 ) Working Document SANTE/7112/2015/Rev. 3 “Principles and criteria for geographically defining ASF regionalisation”. https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/animal-diseases/control-measures/asf_en

( 6 ) OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, 29th Edition, 2021. Volumes I and II ISBN 978-92-95115-40-8; https://www.woah.org/en/what-we-do/standards/codes-and-manuals/terrestrial-code-online-access/

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