Article 1
Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2
1
Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 January 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.
2
They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2013.
3
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.
4
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 3
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 October 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso