CELEX: 31985L0582
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Directive 85/582/EEC of 20 December 1985 amending Directive 84/634/EEC on summertime arrangements

No L 372 / 38                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                31 . 12.85
                                                   COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
                                                    of 20 December 1985
                               amending Directive 84/634 /EEC on summertime arrangements
                                                        (85 / 582 /EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                !Article 3
                                                                       The Member States, apart from Ireland and the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  United Kingdom, shall take the measures necessary
Economic Community,                                                    to ensure that the summertime period for 1986, 1987
                                                                       and 1988 ends at 1 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, on
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                     the last Sunday in September, namely :
Portugal, and in particular Articles 27 and 396 thereof,               — in 1986 : on 28 September,
                                                                       — in 1987 : on 27 September,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                     — in 1988 : on 25 September.
Whereas the summertime arrangements introduced by                      Article 4
Directive 84/634/EEC (') should be adapted on account                  Ireland and the United Kingdom shall take the
of the accession of Spain and Portugal ;                               measures necessary to ensure that the summertime
                                                                       period for 1986, 1987 and 1988 ends at 1 a.m.
Whereas, pursuant to Article 27 of the Act of Accession,               Greenwich Mean Time, on the fourth Sunday in
the Directive must be adapted in accordance with the                   October, namely :
guidelines set out in Annex II to the Act ;                            — in 1986 : on 26 October,
                                                                       — in 1987 : on 25 October,
Whereas, by virtue of Article 2 (3) of the Treaty of                   — in 1988 : on 23 October.'
Accession, the institutions of the Communities may
adopt, before accession, the measures referred to in                                         Article 2
Article 396 of the Act, such measures entering into force
subject to, and on the date of, the entry into force of the         The Member States shall take the measures necessary to
said Treaty,                                                        comply with this Directive.
                                                                                             Article 3
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :                                        This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
                         Article 1                                  Done at Brussels, 20 December 1985 .
With effect from 1 January 1986, subject to the entry                                                    For the Council
into force of the Treaty of Accession of Spain and                                                        The President
Portugal, Articles 3 and 4 of Directive 84/634/EEC are
hereby replaced by the following :                                                                         R. KRIEPS
O OJ No L 331 , 19. 12. 1984, p. 33 .