Article 1
Directive (EU) 2016/1629 is amended as follows:
1. Annex II is replaced by the text in Annex I to this Directive;
2. Annex III is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Directive;
3. Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Directive.
Article 2
1
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive at the latest by 7 October 2018 and which shall apply from this date. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
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.
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, 18 April 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker