Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2240 of 20 October 2022 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2119 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2307 as regards the use of the qualified electronic seal for the issuance of certificates (Text with EEA relevance)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2119 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1, the following paragraph is added: ‘The certificate referred to in Article 35(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 shall bear a qualified electronic seal as defined in Article 3, point (27), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council . (2) in Article 5, the following paragraph is inserted after the third paragraph: ‘Article 1, second paragraph, shall apply from 1 July 2023.’.

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1378 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1, second paragraph, point (a), the following point (iii) is added: ‘(iii) it shall bear a qualified electronic seal as defined in Article 3, point (27), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council ; (2) in Article 3, the following paragraph is inserted after the third paragraph: ‘Article 1, second paragraph, point (a)(iii), shall apply from 1 July 2023.’; (3) Annex I is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

In Part II of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2307, in the fourth paragraph of the notes concerning box 12 and in the second paragraph of the notes concerning box 13, the date ‘30 June 2022’ is replaced by ‘30 November 2022’.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 3 shall apply from 1 July 2022.