Article 1 Directive 2007/59/EC is amended as follows:
(1) Annex II is amended as follows:
In point ‘1.2. Vision’, the seventh indent is replaced by the following:

‘— vision for both eyes: effective,’

;
(2) Annex IV is replaced by the text in Annex I to this Directive;
(3) Annex VI is amended as set out in Annex II to this Directive.
Article 2 Train drivers who have obtained or will obtain their licence in accordance with Directive 2007/59/EC before the date of application referred to in Article 3(1) of this Directive shall be considered to comply with its requirements.
Article 3 1 Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 July 2015 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2016.
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.
3 The obligations for transposition and implementation of this Directive shall not apply to the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Malta for as long as no railway system is established within their territories.
Article 4 This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5 This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 June 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso