Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2002. However, the Member States may use the three-digit numeric codes also shown in the Annex to this Regulation until the provisions revising Annexes 37 and 38 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93(4) come into force. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 15 October 2001. For the Commission Pedro Solbes Mira Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 118, 25.5.1995, p. 10. (2) OJ L 229, 9.9.2000, p. 14. (3) OJ L 243, 28.9.2000, p. 14. (4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.