CHAPTER VICOMMITTEE, TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 31Repeal and transitional provisions
1.
Directives 96/62/EC, 1999/30/EC, 2000/69/EC and 2002/3/EC shall be repealed as from 11 June 2010, without prejudice to the obligations on the Member States relating to time-limits for transposition or application of those Directives.
However, from 11 June 2008, the following shall apply:
(a)
in Directive 96/62/EC, paragraph 1 of Article 12 shall be replaced by the following:
‘1.
The detailed arrangements for forwarding the information to be provided under Article 11 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in paragraph 3.’;
(b)
in Directive 1999/30/EC, Article 7(7), footnote 1 in point I of Annex VIII and point VI of Annex IX shall be deleted;
(c)
in Directive 2000/69/EC, Article 5(7) and point III in Annex VII shall be deleted;
(d)
in Directive 2002/3/EC, Article 9(5) and point II of Annex VIII shall be deleted.
2.
Notwithstanding the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, the following Articles shall remain in force:
(a)
Article 5 of Directive 96/62/EC until 31 December 2010;
(b)
Article 11(1) of Directive 96/62/EC and Article 10(1), (2) and (3) of Directive 2002/3/EC until the end of the second calendar year following the entry into force of the implementing measures referred to in Article 28(2) of this Directive;
(c)
Article 9(3) and (4) of Directive 1999/30/EC until 31 December 2009.
3.
References made to the repealed Directives shall be construed as being made to this Directive and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XVII.
4.
Decision 97/101/EC shall be repealed with effect from the end of the second calendar year following the entry into force of the implementing measures referred to in Article 28(2) of this Directive.
However, the third, fourth and fifth indents of Article 7 of Decision 97/101/EC shall be deleted with effect from 11 June 2008.