CHAPTER IIIREPEALS, AMENDMENT AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 6Repeals

Directives 75/106/EEC and 80/232/EEC shall be repealed.

Article 7Amendment to Directive 76/211/EEC

In Article 1 of Directive 76/211/EEC, the words ‘with the exception of those referred to in the Council Directive 75/106/EEC of 19 December 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids, and’ shall be deleted.

Article 8Transposition

1.

Member States shall, by 11 October 2008, adopt and publish the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.

They shall apply those measures from 11 April 2009.

When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be determined by the Member States.

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 9Reporting, communication of derogations and monitoring

1.

The Commission shall submit a report on the application and effects of this Directive to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee by 11 October 2015, and every 10 years thereafter. Where necessary, those reports shall be accompanied by proposals for revision of this Directive.

2.

By 11 April 2009, the Member States referred to in Article 2(2) shall communicate to the Commission the sectors subject to the derogation referred to in that paragraph, the period of that derogation, the range of mandatory nominal quantities applied and the interval concerned.

3.

The Commission shall monitor the application of Article 2(2) based on its own findings and on the reports from the Member States concerned. More particularly, the Commission shall observe market developments after transposition of this Directive, and shall consider, in the light of the results of that observation, applying follow-up measures to this Directive by maintaining mandatory nominal quantities for the goods referred to in Article 2(2).

Article 10Entry into force

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Articles 2, 6 and 7 shall apply from 11 April 2009.

Article 11Addressees

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.