
Article 1 
This Regulation lays down transitional measures for the application of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 for a transitional period from 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2020.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, the competent authority may designate a laboratory carrying out official testing for Trichinella and located in a slaughterhouse or a game handling establishment provided that, although not accredited in accordance with the European standard referred to in point (a) of that paragraph, the laboratory provides the competent authority with satisfactory guarantees that quality control schemes for the analyses of samples it conducts for the purpose of official controls are in place.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2020.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 18 October 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER