CHAPTER XVII

FINAL PROVISIONS

Transposition
Article 48
1
Member States shall adopt and publish, before 29 April 2009, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with the substantive amendments of this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
They shall apply those provisions from 29 April 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. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the Directive repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.
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.