Transposition
Article 2
1. Member States shall adopt and publish by 6 July 2027 the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof. 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. 2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main measures of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive. 3. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Member States which do not have seaports and which can demonstrate that, of the total number of individual vessels calling annually over the three previous years at their river ports, less than 5 % are ships covered by this Directive, may derogate from the obligation to transpose and implement this Directive.