Article 1 
Directive 2000/75/EC is hereby amended as follows: (1) in Article 2, the following point is added: ‘(j) “live attenuated vaccines” : vaccines which are produced by adapting bluetongue virus field isolates through serial passages in tissue culture or in embryonated hens’ eggs.’;
Article 2 
1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 23 September 2012 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall communicate immediately to the Commission the text of those provisions. They shall apply those provisions from 24 September 2012 at the latest. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall 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 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.