Article 1U.K.
Annex VI to Directive 2007/59/EC is amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2U.K.
Train drivers who have obtained or will obtain their licence in accordance with Directive 2007/59/EC before 1 July 2016 shall be considered to comply with its requirements.
Article 3U.K.
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 July 2016 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.
They shall apply those provisions from 1 July 2016.
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.
3.The obligations for transposition and implementation of this Directive shall not apply to the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Malta for as long as no railway system is established within their territories.
Article 4U.K.
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5U.K.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 1 June 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker