CHAPTER VU.K.TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 90U.K.Amendment to Directive 92/46/EEC
In point 4(b) of Chapter I of Annex A to Council Directive 92/46/EEC, the second subparagraph is deleted.
Article 91U.K.Repeals
1.Directive 85/511/EEC, without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States concerning the time-limits for transposition and application set out in Annex XIX, and Decisions 89/531/EEC of 25 September 1989 designating a reference laboratory for the identification of foot-and-mouth diseasevirus and determining the functions of that laboratory(1) and 91/665/EEC of 11 December 1991 designating a Community Coordinating Institute for foot-and-mouth disease vaccines and laying down its functions(2), adopted in implementation thereof, are hereby repealed as from the date referred to in Article 93.
2.References made to the repealed Directive 85/511/EEC shall be construed as being made to this Directive and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XX.
Article 92U.K.Transitional provisions
1.Transitional provisions may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 89(2) for a period of five years from the date of entry into force of this Directive.
2.Within six months after the date referred to in Article 94, Member States shall submit to the Commission amended contingency plans to take into account the provisions of Article 72.
The Commission shall examine those contingency plans against the objectives of this Directive and shall suggest to the Member States concerned any amendments it deems necessary, in particular to ensure that the plans are compatible with those of the other Member States.
Those amended contingency plans shall be approved in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 89(2).
Article 93U.K.Transposition
1.Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 30 June 2004 at the latest. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
They shall apply these provisions as from 1 July 2004.
When Member States adopt those measures, they 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 94U.K.Entry into force
This Directive shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 95U.K.Addressees
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.