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1. Where the application of this Regulation, or the implementing acts adopted thereunder, would require major adaptations to be made to the national statistical system of a Member State, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, a derogation for a period of time requested by the Member State concerned, provided that that period does not exceed three years. In doing so, the Commission shall ensure the comparability of Member States’ data and the timely calculation of the required representative and reliable European aggregates and shall take into account the burden on Member States and respondents.

2. Where a derogation pursuant to paragraph 1 is still justified by sufficient evidence at the end of the period for which it was granted, the Commission may grant, by means of implementing acts, a derogation for a further period of time requested by the Member State concerned, provided that that period does not exceed two years.

3. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2, a Member State shall submit a duly justified request to the Commission by 13 October 2020 or within three months of the date of entry into force of the implementing act concerned, or six months before the end of the period for which the current derogation was granted, as appropriate.

4. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 11(2).