①An approval, designation or other disposition, or a notice or other act, done by the former national organ under the provisions of the respective Acts before their amendment by this Act (including orders based thereon; hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the "former laws and regulations") before this Act comes into effect is, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, deemed, after this Act comes into effect, to be an approval, designation or other disposition, or a notice or other act, done by the equivalent national organ under the equivalent provisions of the respective Acts after their amendment by this Act (including orders based thereon; hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the "new laws and regulations").

②An application, notification or other act that has actually been made to the former national organ under the provisions of the former laws and regulations as of the time this Act comes into effect is, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, deemed, after this Act comes into effect, to be an application, notification or other act made to the equivalent national organ under the equivalent provisions of the new laws and regulations.

③With regard to a matter for which an application, notification or other procedure was required to be made to the former national organ under the provisions of the former laws and regulations before this Act comes into effect, and for which that procedure has not been made to the former national organ before the day on which this Act comes into effect, the provisions of the new laws and regulations apply, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations, after this Act comes into effect, by deeming that procedure not to have been made to the equivalent national organ under the equivalent provisions of the new laws and regulations.