Article 3
1
Member States shall adopt and publish, by
1 May 2008
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.
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.
They shall apply those provisions in such a way as to:
a
permit the trade in and use of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and complying with Directive 2002/72/EC, as amended by this Directive, from
1 May 2008
;
b
prohibit the manufacture and importation into the Community of lids containing a gasket which do not comply with restrictions and specifications for Ref. No 30340; 30401; 36640; 56800; 76815; 76866; 88640 and 93760 laid down in Directive 2002/72/EC as amended by this Directive from
1 July 2008
;
c
prohibit the manufacture and importation into the Community of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food which do not comply with restrictions and specifications for phthalates Ref. No 74560; 74640; 74880; 75100; 75105 laid down in Directive 2002/72/EC as amended by this Directive from
1 July 2008
;
d
without prejudice to point (b) and (c), prohibit the manufacture and importation into the Community of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food which do not comply with Directive 2002/72/EC as amended by this Directive from
1 May 2009
.
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.
Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Directive 2007/19/EC of 30 March 2007 amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Official Journal of the European Union L 91 of 31 March 2007).