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 from 1 January 2021.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 August 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22 .

( 2 ) Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1967/2006, (EC) No 1224/2009 and Regulations (EU) No 1380/2013, (EU) No 2016/1139, (EU) 2018/973, (EU) 2019/472 and (EU) 2019/1022 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 894/97, (EC) No 850/98, (EC) No 2549/2000, (EC) No 254/2002, (EC) No 812/2004 and (EC) No 2187/2005 ( OJ L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 105 ).

( 3 ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/161 of 23 October 2017 establishing a de minimis exemption to the landing obligation for certain small pelagic fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea ( OJ L 30, 2.2.2018, p. 1 ).

( 4 ) Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) Evaluation of Joint Recommendations on the Landing Obligation and on the Technical Measures Regulation (STECF-20-04). Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, https://stecf.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/43805/2694823/STECF+20-04+-+Eval+JRs+LO+and+TM+Reg.pdf/d71aef4f-7366-48cb-9cdb-afcf58565ee6

COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2020/2012 of 5 August 2020 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/161 establishing a