Legal provisions of COM(2016)560 - Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending, for the purpose of adapting to technical progress, Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC on the safety of toys, as regards lead

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Article 1

In the table under point 13 of part III of Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC, the entry for lead is replaced by the following:

‘Lead2,00,523’

Article 2

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 28 October 2018 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.

They shall apply those provisions from 28 October 2018.

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.