1.Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements by economic operators of the provisions of this Regulation. Such rules may include criminal penalties for serious infringements.
The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
Member States shall notify those rules to the Commission by 21 March 2018, and shall notify it without delay of any subsequent amendment affecting them.
2.Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure that their rules on penalties applicable to infringements by economic operators of the provisions of this Regulation are enforced.
Directive 89/686/EEC is repealed with effect from 21 April 2018.
References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex X.
1.Without prejudice to paragraph 2, Member States shall not impede the making available on the market of products covered by Directive 89/686/EEC which are in conformity with that Directive and which were placed on the market before 21 April 2019.
2.EC type-examination certificates and approval decisions issued under Directive 89/686/EEC shall remain valid until 21 April 2023 unless they expire before that date.
1.This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2.This Regulation shall apply from 21 April 2018, with the exception of:
(a)Articles 20 to 36 and Article 44, which shall apply from 21 October 2016;
(b)Article 45(1), which shall apply from 21 March 2018.