Directive 91/226/EEC shall be amended as follows:
the list of Annexes and Annexes I, II and III are amended in accordance with Annex I to this Directive;
the unnumbered Annex entitled ‘Figures’ is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Directive.
Item 43 of Annex IV and Annex XI, Appendices 2 and 4 to Directive 2007/46/EC shall be replaced by the following:
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1.With effect from 9 April 2011 Member States shall not, on grounds related to spray suppression, refuse to grant an EC or national type-approval to a vehicle and a component complying with the requirements laid down in Directive 91/226/EEC as amended by this Directive.
2.With effect from 9 April 2011 Member States shall, on grounds related to spray suppression, refuse to grant an EC or national type-approval to a vehicle and a component not complying with the requirements laid down in Directive 91/226/EEC as amended by this Directive.
3.When applying for EC whole vehicle type-approval under Directive 2007/46/EC, vehicle types which were granted a national or EC type-approval covering spray-suppression, shall not have to comply with the spray-suppression requirements set out in Directive 91/226/EEC.
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 8 April 2011 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 9 April 2011.
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.
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 9 March 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso