Recital (2) · Only the English text is authentic

(2)The Network Manager initially submitted to the Commission a draft Network Performance Plan for the third reference period (‘RP3’) on 1 October 2019. Because of the change of circumstances caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which occurred after the submission of the draft Network Performance Plan, the Commission did not conclude the assessment of that plan. The exceptional measures for RP3 adopted by the Commission in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627^note, require the Network Manager to draw up and submit to the Commission, by 1 October 2021, a revised draft Network Performance Plan for RP3.