1.Without prejudice to paragraph 2, Member States shall continue to provide the harmonised indices in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 up to the transmission of data relating to 2016.
2.Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 is repealed with effect from 1 January 2017.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex II.
3.When first adopting the implementing acts referred to in Articles 3(6), 3(9), 3(10), 4(4), 5(6) and 7(6), the Commission shall, to the extent compatible with this Regulation, incorporate the relevant provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1749/96 3, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2214/96 4, Council Regulation (EC) No 1687/98 5, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2646/98 6, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1617/1999 7, Council Regulation (EC) No 2166/1999 8, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2601/2000 9, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2602/2000 10, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1920/2001 11, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1921/2001 12, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1708/2005 13, Council Regulation (EC) No 701/2006 14, Commission Regulation (EC) No 330/2009 15, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1114/2010 16 and Commission Regulation (EU) No 93/2013 17 adopted on the basis of Regulation (EC) No 2494/95, whilst reducing, to the extent appropriate, the overall number of implementing acts. The Regulations adopted on the basis of Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 shall remain applicable for a transitional period. That transitional period shall end on the date of application of the implementing acts first adopted on the basis of Articles 3(6), 3(9), 3(10), 4(4), 5(6) and 7(6) of this Regulation, which shall be the same date for all of those implementing acts.