
Article 1 
In Article 20 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/983, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. For establishment and for the temporary and occasional provision of services pursuant to Article 7(4) of Directive 2005/36/EC, the competent authority of the host Member State shall take either a decision to issue the EPC, a decision to refuse to issue the EPC or a decision to apply compensation measures pursuant to Article 7(4), fourth subparagraph, or Article 14 of Directive 2005/36/EC.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 11 August 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN