Article 1
Annex A to Directive 96/98/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2
Equipment listed in column 1 of Annex A.1 as ‘new item’ or as having been transferred from Annex A.2 which was manufactured before 30 November 2013 in conformity with procedures for type-approval already in force before that date within the territory of a Member State may continue to be placed on the market and on board a Community ship until 30 November 2015.
Article 3
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 30 November 2013 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 30 November 2013.
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 4
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 October 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso