Recital 1

(1)Pursuant to Article 2 of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/2031 ² , that Decision is to apply from the date following that on which the Treaties cease to apply to and in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the ‘United Kingdom’) pursuant to Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, unless a withdrawal agreement has entered into force by that date or the two-year period referred to in Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union has been extended.