(7)Following the adoption of the 2016 EFSA Opinion, Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 was amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1972note in order to provide for a 3-year monitoring programme for chronic wasting disease in cervids, while Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2181note extended the validity of Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1918 until the end of 2020 to allow for the safeguard measures to remain applicable until the end of that 3-year monitoring programme. Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2181 also added prohibitions and restrictions regarding cervid urine hunting lures to the safeguard measures.
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