Directive 2008/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008 repealing Council Directive 84/539/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electro-medical equipment used in veterinary medicine (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-03-11
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EC Directive, approximation of laws, electrical equipment, repeal, technical regulations, veterinary medicine

19.3.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 76/41

DIRECTIVE 2008/13/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 11 March 2008

repealing Council Directive 84/539/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States
relating to electro-medical equipment used in veterinary medicine

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

(5)

The repeal of Directive 84/539/EEC entails that after
31 December 2008 the specimen mark of conformity
of Annex III to that Directive will no longer be used
and that
implementing
corresponding national
measures have to be repealed accordingly,

the

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and
Social Committee (1),

Directive 84/539/EEC is hereby repealed with effect
31 December 2008.

from

Acting in accordance with the procedure
Article 251 of the Treaty (2),

laid down in

Whereas:

Article 2

Member States shall adopt and publish the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary
to comply with this
Directive by 31 December 2008. They shall forthwith commu-
nicate to the Commission the text of those measures and a
correlation table between them and this Directive.

Community policies on better
simplification
of
importance
Community
a
legislation
improving
achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Agenda.

as
competitiveness of

of
crucial

the

national

element

enterprises

regulation stress

the
and
in
and

When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a
reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such
reference on the occasion of
their official publication. The
methods of making such reference shall be laid down by
Member States.

The method of conformity assessment provided for by
Council Directive 84/539/EEC (3) is no longer necessary
for the purposes of the internal market and trade with
third countries.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(1)

(2)

(3)

Done at Strasbourg, 11 March 2008.

For the European Parliament
The President

H.-G. PÖTTERING

For the Council
The President

J. LENARČIČ

functioning of

The
and the
protection of users and animals can be better ensured
by other Community legislation.

internal market

the

(4)

Directive 84/539/EEC should therefore be repealed.

(1) Opinion of 16 January 2008 (not yet published in the Official

Journal).

(2) Opinion of the European Parliament of 29 November 2007 (not yet
and Council Decision of

Journal)

published in the Official
14 February 2008.

(3) OJ L 300, 19.11.1984, p. 179. Directive as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 807/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 36).