On 2 May 2019 there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/684 of 25 April 2019 on the recognition of the legal, supervisory and enforcement arrangements of Japan for derivatives transactions supervised by the Japan Financial Services Agency as equivalent to the valuation, dispute resolution and margin requirements of Article 11 of EMIR. The decision enters into force on 22 May 2019.