CHAPTER VIIIFINAL PROVISIONS
Article 28Transposition
1
Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 January 2018, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those measures.
2
They shall apply those measures from 1 July 2018.
3
When Member States adopt those measures, 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.
4
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.