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document COM(2024)561
date November 29, 2024


Article 1

Directive 2014/32/EU is amended as follows:

(1) in Article 2, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. This Directive applies to the measuring instruments defined in the instrument-specific Annexes III to XII (‘instrument-specific Annexes’) concerning water meters (MI-001), gas meters and conversion devices (MI-002), active electrical energy meters (MI-003), measuring systems for electric vehicle supply equipment (MI-003a), thermal energy meters (MI-004), measuring systems for continuous and dynamic measurement of quantities of liquids other than water (MI-005), measuring systems for compressed gas dispensers (MI-005a), automatic weighing instruments (MI-006), taximeters (MI-007), material measures (MI-008), dimensional measuring instruments (MI-009) and exhaust gas analysers (MI-010).’;

(2) Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Directive;

(3) Annex IV is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Directive;

(4) Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Directive;

(5) Annex Va is inserted as set out in Annex IV to this Directive;

(6) Annex VI is amended in accordance with Annex V to this Directive;

(7) Annex VIIa is inserted as set out in Annex VI to this Directive.

Article 2

1. By way of derogation from Article 7(2) of Directive 2014/32/EU, Member States shall not impede the making available on the market and putting into use of measuring instruments that are in conformity with Directive 2014/32/EU in the version in force on [OP please insert the date = the date of 1 day before of entry into force of this Directive] and that have been placed on the market before [OP please insert the date = [24 months] after the date of entry into force of this Directive].

2. By way of derogation from Article 7(2) of Directive 2014/32/EU, certificates issued under Directive 2014/32/EU and national certificates, covering measuring instruments that fall in the scope of Directive 2014/32/EU from [OP please insert the date = date of entry into force of this Directive ] and that have been placed on the market before [OP please insert the date = 24 months after the date of entry into force of this Directive], shall remain valid until the expiry of their validity, and in any case no longer than until [OP please insert the date = 12 years from the date of entry into force of this Directive].

Article 3

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by [Note to PO: insert exact date – [12 months] after entry into force of this Directive] 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 [Note to PO: insert exact date – [24 months] after entry into force of this Directive].

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.

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.