Entry into force and application

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

It shall apply until 31 December 2017.

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

Done at Strasbourg, 13 April 2016.

For the European Parliament

The President

M. SCHULZ

For the Council

The President

J.A. HENNIS-PLASSCHAERT

( 1 ) Position of the European Parliament of 10 March 2016 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 11 April 2016.

( 2 ) OJ L 97, 30.3.1998, p. 2 .

( 3 ) Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 ( OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671 ).

( 4 ) Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers ( OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13 ).

REGULATION (EU) 2016/580 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 April 2016 on the introduction of emergency autonomous trade measures for the Republic of Tunisia