Directive 2002/94/EC is amended as set out in the Annex.
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by the date of accession at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.
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.
This Directive shall enter into force subject to, and as from the date of, the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 4 March 2004.
For the Commission
Günter Verheugen
Member of the Commission