{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1939/article-120",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/1939",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1939",
  "path": "article/120",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Entry into force",
  "text": "1. This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.\n2. The EPPO shall exercise its competence with regard to any offence within its competence committed after the date on which this Regulation has entered into force.\nThe EPPO shall assume the investigative and prosecutorial tasks conferred on it by this Regulation on a date to be determined by a decision of the Commission on a proposal of the European Chief Prosecutor once the EPPO is set up. The decision of the Commission shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.\nThe date to be set by the Commission shall not be earlier than 3 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation.\nFor those Member States which participate in enhanced cooperation by virtue of a decision adopted in accordance with the second or third subparagraph of Article 331(1) TFEU, this Regulation shall apply as from the date indicated in the decision concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/1939/article/120",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:30.155126+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}