Legal provisions of COM(2005)427 - Amendment of Directive 69/169/EEC as regards as the temporary quantitative restriction on beer imports into Finland

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dossier COM(2005)427 - Amendment of Directive 69/169/EEC as regards as the temporary quantitative restriction on beer imports into Finland.
document COM(2005)427 EN
date December 21, 2005

Contents

Article 1

Article 5(9) of Directive 69/169/EEC shall be replaced by the following:

‘9.   By way of derogation from Article 4(1), Finland shall be authorised, until 31 December 2007, to apply a maximum quantitative limit of not less than 16 litres for the importation of beer from third countries.’

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 December 2005. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of such laws, regulations or administrative provisions, together with a table showing the correlation between them and this Directive.

When they are adopted by Member States, those measures shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by 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 3

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

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.