CHAPTER VII FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 32

Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall by 11 October 2025 notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it without delay of any subsequent amendment affecting them.

Article 37

In Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2023/955, point (1) is replaced by the following:

Article 38

Directive 2012/27/EU, as amended by the acts listed in Part A of Annex XVI is repealed with effect from 12 October 2025, without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for the transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Part B of Annex XVI.

References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XVII.

Article 39

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

▼M1

Articles 13 to 16 and Articles 18 and 20 and Annexes II, IX, XII, XIII and XIV shall apply from 12 October 2025.

▼B

Article 37 shall apply from 30 June 2024.

Article 40

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.