Chapters III and IV of this Regulation concern cooperation between supervisory authorities, the procedural rights of parties under investigation and the involvement of complainants. To ensure legal certainty, those provisions should not apply to ongoing investigations at the time this Regulation enters into force. They should apply to ex officio investigations opened after 15 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation and to complaint-based investigations where the complaint was lodged after 15 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. Chapters V and VI of this Regulation provide for procedural rules for cases referred to dispute resolution under Article 65 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and for requests for an urgent opinion or urgent binding decision under Article 66 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. For reasons of legal certainty, those chapters should not apply to cases that have been referred to dispute resolution prior to the entry into force of this Regulation. They should apply to all cases referred to dispute resolution after 15 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
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