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Annex III to Directive 76/768/EEC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 September 2010 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.
Member States shall apply the provisions set out in the Annex to this Directive, except the obligations concerning the labelling set out in column (f) of entry 208, from 1 December 2010.
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.
Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that after 1 November 2011 no cosmetic products which fail to comply with the obligations concerning the labelling set out in column (f) of entry 208 of Part I of Annex III to Directive 76/768/EEC, as amended by this Directive, are placed on the market by Union manufacturers or by importers established within the Union.
Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that after 1 November 2012 no cosmetic products which fail to comply with the obligations concerning the labelling set out in column (f) of entry 208 of Part I of Annex III to Directive 76/768/EEC, as amended by this Directive, are sold or disposed of to the final consumer in the Union.
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, 8 February 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso