Article 1
Directive 67/548/EEC is amended as follows. Annex I is amended as follows:
1. the entries corresponding to the entries set out in Annex 1A to this Directive are replaced by the entries set out in that Annex;
2. the entries set out in Annex 1B to this Directive are inserted in accordance with the order of the entries set out in Annex I to Directive 67/548/EEC;
3. the entries set out in Annex 1C to this Directive are deleted.
Article 2
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 June 2009 at the latest. 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.
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 3
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 15 January 2009.
For the Commission
Stavros Dimas
Member of the Commission