CHAPTER 4FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 15Transposition
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 5 April 2009 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 5 April 2012.
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 16Entry into force
This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 17
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.