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Acts whose titles are printed in light type are those relating to day-to-day management of agricultural matters, and are generally valid for a limited period. The titles of all other Acts are printed in bold type and preceded by an asterisk. |
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REGULATIONS
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 256/1 |
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 931/2008
of 23 September 2008
establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 of 21 December 2007 laying down implementing rules for Council Regulations (EC) No 2200/96, (EC) No 2201/96 and (EC) No 1182/2007 in the fruit and vegetable sector (2), and in particular Article 138(1) thereof,
Whereas:
Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in Annex XV, Part A thereto,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The standard import values referred to in Article 138 of Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 are fixed in the Annex hereto.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 September 2008.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 September 2008.
For the Commission
Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
ANNEX
Standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
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CN code |
Third country code (1) |
Standard import value |
0702 00 00 |
MK |
31,4 |
TR |
70,5 |
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ZZ |
51,0 |
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0707 00 05 |
JO |
156,8 |
TR |
77,6 |
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ZZ |
117,2 |
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0709 90 70 |
TR |
93,2 |
ZZ |
93,2 |
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0805 50 10 |
AR |
62,8 |
UY |
64,8 |
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ZA |
77,6 |
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ZZ |
68,4 |
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0806 10 10 |
TR |
107,9 |
US |
132,8 |
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ZZ |
120,4 |
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0808 10 80 |
BR |
56,2 |
CL |
78,5 |
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CN |
80,5 |
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NZ |
121,3 |
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US |
116,3 |
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ZA |
83,7 |
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ZZ |
89,4 |
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0808 20 50 |
AR |
68,9 |
CN |
140,1 |
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TR |
131,4 |
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ZA |
100,6 |
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ZZ |
110,3 |
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0809 30 |
TR |
130,8 |
US |
162,0 |
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ZZ |
146,4 |
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0809 40 05 |
IL |
131,9 |
TR |
80,5 |
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XS |
53,9 |
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ZZ |
88,8 |
(1) Nomenclature of countries laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19). Code ‘ ZZ ’ stands for ‘of other origin’.
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 256/3 |
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 932/2008
of 22 September 2008
establishing a prohibition of fishing for blue whiting in EC and international waters of I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIIIa, VIIIb, VIIId, VIIIe, XII and XIV by vessels flying the flag of the Netherlands
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 26(4) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to common fisheries policy (2), and in particular Article 21(3) thereof,
Whereas:
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Council Regulation (EC) No 40/2008 of 16 January 2008 fixing for 2008 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in Community waters and for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required (3), lays down quotas for 2008. |
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According to the information received by the Commission, catches of the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein have exhausted the quota allocated for 2008. |
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It is therefore necessary to prohibit fishing for that stock and its retention on board, transhipment and landing, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Quota exhaustion
The fishing quota allocated to the Member State referred to in the Annex to this Regulation for the stock referred to therein for 2008 shall be deemed to be exhausted from the date set out in that Annex.
Article 2
Prohibitions
Fishing for the stock referred to in the Annex to this Regulation by vessels flying the flag of or registered in the Member State referred to therein shall be prohibited from the date set out in that Annex. It shall be prohibited to retain on board, tranship or land such stock caught by those vessels after that date.
Article 3
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 September 2008.
For the Commission
Fokion FOTIADIS
Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59.
ANNEX
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39/T&Q |
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NLD |
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WHB/1X14 |
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Blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) |
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EC and international waters of I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIIIa, VIIIb, VIIId, VIIIe, XII and XIV |
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19.8.2008 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 256/5 |
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 933/2008
of 23 September 2008
amending the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards the means of identification of animals and the content of the movement documents
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (1), and in particular Article 10(1) thereof,
Whereas:
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Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that each Member State is to establish a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals in accordance with the provisions of that Regulation. |
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That system is to comprise four elements, namely: means of identification to identify each animal (means of identification), up-to-date registers kept on each holding, movement documents and a central register or a computer database. The Annex to that Regulation sets out the requirements for those elements. |
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Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1560/2007 (2), provides that electronic identification is to be obligatory as from 31 December 2009. |
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On 17 November 2007, the Commission submitted a report to the Council on the implementation of electronic identification in sheep and goats (3). That report concludes that Member States should also be allowed to approve new types of identifiers to identify sheep and goats under certain conditions. |
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Technological developments have taken place in the field of electronic identification. It is therefore appropriate to amend the requirements concerning the means of identification, set out in Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, in order to allow a broader spectrum of technical combinations. The newly developed means of identification, such as injectable identifiers and electronic marks on the pastern, should accordingly be permitted as means of identification pursuant to that Regulation. However, their use should be limited to national movements, taking into account the need to gain further practical experience of using those new means of identification. As electronic identification will become the first means of identification Member States should be allowed more flexibility in using conventional means of identification as a second identifier. Part A of the Annex to that Regulation should therefore be amended accordingly. |
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Part B of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 sets out the information which should be contained in the up-to-date registers kept on each holding. Part of that information is available only at the holding of birth. In the interest of reducing the administrative burdens, it is therefore appropriate to amend that part of the Annex. |
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Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that, as from 31 December 2009, electronic identification is to be obligatory for all animals born after that date. However, during the first year after 31 December 2009, the majority of animals will only be identified with conventional non-electronic identifiers, since those animals are born before that date. During that year animals with electronic and non-electronic identifiers will be moved and handled together. |
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The individual animal codes from non-electronic identifiers can only be recorded manually. Manual recording of non-electronic identifiers requires considerable effort on the part of keepers and constitutes a potential source of errors. In addition, it would be burdensome for operators to separate the few animals with electronic identifiers and to record their individual codes. Also, it would be burdensome to request that electronic reading systems are installed for individual recording, as the majority of animals moved would still be identified with conventional non-electronic eartags. Therefore, the date from which the movement document is to contain individual animal codes should be postponed until such time as a substantial part of the sheep and goats population has already been identified by electronic means. The Commission’s report on the implementation of electronic identification in sheep and goats also reached that conclusion. |
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It is therefore appropriate to postpone until 1 January 2011 the date from which the movement document must contain the individual identification code for each animal. The date referred to in point 2 of Part C of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, concerning the movement document, should therefore be amended accordingly. |
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The particular situation of animals born before 1 January 2010 should be taken into account as regards the requirement to record individual animal codes in the movement document. The risks associated with movements of such animals to a slaughterhouse are limited and do not justify the supplementary administrative burden posed by that requirement. Animals moved directly to a slaughterhouse should therefore be exempted from that requirement regardless of the date of movement of the animals. |
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In addition, although animals born before 1 January 2010 would still form a substantial part of the sheep and goats population in 2011, the risks associated with their movements would be constantly decreasing, proportionally to the decrease in number of such animals until 31 December 2011. Movements of such animals should therefore be exempted from the requirement to record individual animal codes in the movement document until 31 December 2011. After that date, the vast majority of the sheep and goats population would be electronically identified and manual recording would be necessary only in a small number of cases, as it would only concern old animals which are moved to other holdings and not to slaughterhouses. The burden imposed on keepers by such recording after 31 December 2011, as well as the potential sources of error, would then be within acceptable levels. |
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It is therefore appropriate to provide for certain transitional provisions during the start-up period of the system as regards the recording of individual animal codes in the movement document of animals born before 1 January 2010. |
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Part C of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 sets out the information which should be contained in the movement document. The identification code of the holding of destination is not always available at the holding of departure. The name and address of the holding of destination or next keeper should be acceptable as an alternative. |
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Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly. |
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The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 September 2008.
For the Commission
Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission
(2) OJ L 340, 22.12.2007, p. 25.
(3) COM(2007) 711.
ANNEX
‘ANNEX
A. MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION
1. |
The competent authority shall approve means of identification, as provided for in Article 4(1), which must be designed to:
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2. |
The means of identification must display a code providing the following information in the indicated order:
In addition to the codes referred to in points (a) and (b), and provided that the legibility of those codes is not affected, the competent authority may authorise a bar code and the addition of supplementary information by the keeper. |
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The first means of identification referred to in Article 4(2)(a) must comply with the criteria set out in either point (a) or (b):
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4. |
The second means of identification, as provided for in Article 4(2)(b), must comply with the following criteria:
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The system referred to in Article 4(2)(c) requires the identification of the animals both by holding and individually, provides for a replacement procedure where a means of identification has become illegible or has been lost, under the control of the competent authority and without compromising traceability between holdings, the objective being to control epizootic diseases, and allows the animals’ movements to be traced within the national territory, with the same objective. |
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The electronic identifiers must conform to the following technical characteristics:
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The identification method referred to in Article 4(3), shall be as follows:
Member States using that alternative method must inform the Commission and the other Member States thereof, in the framework of the Committee referred to in Article 13(1). If animals identified in accordance with this point are either kept beyond the age of 12 months or are intended for intra-Community trade or export to third countries and in all cases are still kept in the holding of birth, then they must be identified in accordance with points 1 to 4 before leaving that holding. |
B. HOLDING REGISTER
1. |
From 9 July 2005, the holding register must contain at least the following information:
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2. |
From 31 December 2009, the holding register must contain at least the following up-to-date information for each animal born after that date:
However, for animals identified in accordance with point 7 of Section A, the information set out in (a) to (d) of this point must be provided for each batch of animals having the same identification and must include the number of animals. |
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The holding register must contain the name and signature of the designated or approved officer of the competent authority who has checked the register and the date on which the check was carried out. |
C. MOVEMENT DOCUMENT
1. |
The movement document must be completed by the keeper on the basis of a model drawn up by the competent authority. It must contain at least the following information:
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2. |
From 1 January 2011, the movement document must contain the individual identification code for each animal identified in accordance with points 1 to 6 of Section A, in addition to the information set out in point 1 of this section. |
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However, the information provided for in point 2 shall not be obligatory for animals born until 31 December 2009:
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D. COMPUTER DATABASE
1. |
The computer database must contain at least the following information for each holding:
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2. |
In accordance with Article 8, there must be an entry in the database for each separate movement of animals.
That entry must comprise at least the following information:
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Austria |
AT |
040 |
Belgium |
BE |
056 |
Bulgaria |
BG |
100 |
Cyprus |
CY |
196 |
Czech Republic |
CZ |
203 |
Denmark |
DK |
208 |
Estonia |
EE |
233 |
Finland |
FI |
246 |
France |
FR |
250 |
Germany |
DE |
276 |
Greece |
EL |
300 |
Hungary |
HU |
348 |
Ireland |
IE |
372 |
Italy |
IT |
380 |
Latvia |
LV |
428 |
Lithuania |
LT |
440 |
Luxembourg |
LU |
442 |
Malta |
MT |
470 |
Netherlands |
NL |
528 |
Poland |
PL |
616 |
Portugal |
PT |
620 |
Romania |
RO |
642 |
Slovakia |
SK |
703 |
Slovenia |
SI |
705 |
Spain |
ES |
724 |
Sweden |
SE |
752 |
United Kingdom |
UK |
826 |
DIRECTIVES
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 256/12 |
COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2008/88/EC
of 23 September 2008
amending Council Directive 76/768/EEC, concerning cosmetic products, for the purpose of adapting Annexes II and III thereto to technical progress
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 76/768/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic products (1), and in particular Article 8(2) thereof,
After consulting the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products,
Whereas:
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Following the publication of a scientific study in 2001, entitled ‘Use of permanent hair dyes and bladder cancer risk’, the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products intended for Consumers, replaced by the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP), by Commission Decision 2004/210/EC (2), concluded that the potential risks were of concern. It recommended that the Commission take further steps to control the use of hair dye substances. |
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The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products further recommended an overall safety assessment strategy for hair dye substances including the requirements for testing substances used in hair dye products for their potential genotoxicity/mutagenicity. |
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Following the opinions of the SCCP, the Commission, together with Member States and stakeholders, agreed on an overall strategy to regulate substances used in hair dye products, according to which the industry was required to submit files containing the scientific data on hair dye substances to be evaluated by the SCCP. |
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Substances for which no updated safety files are submitted allowing an adequate risk assessment should be included in Annex II to Directive 76/768/EEC. |
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Some hair dye substances have already been banned, either as a result of opinions by the SCCP or due to lack of safety data. The substances currently under consideration were carefully selected to be regulated together since they are listed in Annex IV. As no safety files on these substances for their use in hair dye products were submitted to the SCCP for a risk assessment by the agreed deadlines, there is no evidence that these substances, when used in hair dye products, can be considered safe for human health. |
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Substances without safety files 1-Hydroxy-2,4-diaminobenzene (2,4-Diaminophenol) and its dihydrochloride salt; 1,4-Dihydroxybenzene (Hydroquinone); [4-[[4-anilino-1-naphthyl][4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]methylene]cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene]dimethylammoniumchloride (Basic Blue 26); Disodium 3-[(2,4-dimethyl-5-sulphonatophenyl)azo]-4-hydroxynaphthalene-1-sulpho-nate (Ponceau SX) and 4-[(4-Aminophenyl)(4-iminocyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene)methyl]-o-toluidine and its hydrochloride salt (Basic Violet 14), currently listed as colorants in Annex IV and as hair dye substances in Annex III, Part 1 and Part 2, shall be deleted from Annex III and banned for use in hair dye products in Annex II. |
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Directive 76/768/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly. |
(8) |
The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Cosmetic Products, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
Annexes II and III to Directive 76/768/EEC are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2
1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 14 February 2009 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.
They shall apply those provisions from 14 August 2009.
When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 3
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 September 2008.
For the Commission
Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President
ANNEX
Directive 76/768/EEC is amended as follows:
1. |
in Annex II, the following reference numbers 1329 to 1369 are added:
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2. |
Annex III is amended as follows:
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