Marketing authorisations of veterinary medicinal products and registrations of homeopathic veterinary medicinal products granted in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC or Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 before 28 January 2022 shall be deemed to have been issued in accordance with this Regulation, and are, as such, subject to the relevant provisions of this Regulation.

The first subparagraph of this paragraph shall not apply to marketing authorisations for antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products containing antimicrobials which have been reserved for treatment in humans in accordance with implementing acts referred to in Article 37(5).

Veterinary medicinal products placed on the market in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC or Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 may continue to be made available until 29 January 2027, even if they are not in compliance with this Regulation.

By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, the periods of protection referred to in Article 39 shall not apply to reference veterinary medicinal products for which an authorisation has been granted before 28 January 2022 and, instead, the corresponding provisions in the repealed acts referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall continue to apply in that respect.