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               <Text>Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) 1107/2009, (EU) 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation)<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/>, and in particular the introductory phrase and point (e) of Article 18(8) thereof,</Text>
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                  <Text>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 (Withdrawal Agreement) and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, Regulation (EU) 2017/625, as well as the Commission acts based on it, will continue to apply in the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland after the end of the transitional period. For that reason, it is necessary to amend the requirements laid down in Annex II to that Regulation concerning the health mark that should be used in the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.</Text>
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               <Text>It shall apply from 1 January 2021.</Text>
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               <Text>This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.</Text>
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                  <Text>Done at Brussels, 16 December 2020.</Text>
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                        <Emphasis>For the Commission</Emphasis>
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                        <Emphasis>The President</Emphasis>
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                     <Text>Ursula <Uppercase>von der Leyen</Uppercase>
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                  <Text>In Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/627, paragraph 1(a) is replaced by the following:</Text>
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                              <Text>the name of the country in which the establishment is located, which may be written out in full in capitals or shown as a two-letter code in accordance with the relevant ISO code. In the case of Member States<FootnoteRef Ref="f00003"/>, however, these codes are BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, GR, ES, FR, HR, IT, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE and UK(NI);</Text>
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                  <Citation id="c00001" Class="EuropeanUnionOfficialJournal" Year="2017" URI="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2017.095.01.0001.01.ENG" Date="2017-04-07">OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1</Citation>.</Text>
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               <Text>Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/627 of 15 March 2019 laying down uniform practical arrangements for the performance of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 as regards official controls (<Citation id="c00002" Class="EuropeanUnionOfficialJournal" Year="2019" URI="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2019.131.01.0051.01.ENG" Date="2019-05-17">OJ L 131, 17.5.2019, p. 51</Citation>).</Text>
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               <Text>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 Annex, references to Member States include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.’</Text>
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