Article 1U.K.
Annexes II and III of Directive 76/768/EEC are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2U.K.
Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that products which fail to comply with this Directive are not sold or disposed of to the final consumer after 4 October 2009.
Article 3U.K.
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 4 October 2008 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 and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.
They shall apply those provisions from 4 April 2009.
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 4U.K.
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5U.K.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.