
Article 1 
Article 35 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251 is replaced by the following:
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Article 35 
Counterparties referred to in Article 11(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 may continue to apply the risk-management procedures that they have in place at the date of application of this Regulation in respect of non-centrally cleared OTC derivative contracts entered into or novated between 16 August 2012 and the relevant dates of application of this Regulation.
Counterparties referred to in Article 11(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 may also continue to apply the risk-management procedures that they have in place at 14 March 2019 in respect of non-centrally cleared OTC derivative contracts fulfilling all of the following conditions:

((a)) the non-centrally cleared OTC derivative contracts have been entered into or novated before either the relevant dates of application of this Regulation as set out in Articles 36, 37 and 38 of this Regulation or 14 March 2019, whichever is earlier;
((b)) the non-centrally cleared OTC derivative contracts are novated for the sole purpose of replacing a counterparty established in the United Kingdom with a counterparty established in a Member State;
((c)) the non-centrally cleared OTC derivative contracts are novated between the date following that on which Union law ceases to apply to and in the United Kingdom pursuant to Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union and either of the following, whichever is later:

((i)) the relevant dates of application set out in Articles 36, 37 and 38 of this Regulation; or
((ii)) 12 months from the date following that on which Union law ceases to apply to and in the United Kingdom pursuant to Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union.'
Article 2 
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 the date following that on which the Treaties cease to apply to and in the United Kingdom pursuant to Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union.
However, this Regulation shall not apply in any of the following cases:

((a)) a withdrawal agreement concluded with the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union has entered into force by that date;
((b)) a decision has been taken to extend the two year period referred to in Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 December 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER