Article 1
By way of transitional measure derogating from Regulation (EC) No 999/2001: 1. the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 listed in Annex I to this Regulation shall not apply to a Member State or third country until the entry into force of the decision determining the BSE status of that Member State or third country, adopted pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001. Annex XI, section D, shall apply to the Member State or third country concerned until that date. No such decision shall enter into force before 1 January 2002; 2. Article 7(2), (3) and (4) shall not apply to a Member State until the coming into force of the decision determining the BSE status of that Member State, and until the Community provisions on animal feeding relevant to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are effectively enforced there. Annex XI, section C, shall apply to that Member State until Article 7(2), (3) and (4) become applicable there.