
Article 1 
Annex II to Directive 2011/65/EU is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December 2016 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.They shall apply those provisions from 22 July 2019.When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or 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 twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 31 March 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX


ANNEX II 

 Lead (0,1 %)
 Mercury (0,1 %)
 Cadmium (0,01 %)
 Hexavalent chromium (0,1 %)
 Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) (0,1 %)
 Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) (0,1 %)
 Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) (0,1 %)
 Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) (0,1 %)
 Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) (0,1 %)
 Diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) (0,1 %)

The restriction of DEHP, BBP, DBP and DIBP shall apply to medical devices, including in vitro medical devices, and monitoring and control instruments, including industrial monitoring and control instruments, from 22 July 2021.

The restriction of DEHP, BBP, DBP and DIBP shall not apply to cables or spare parts for the repair, the reuse, the updating of functionalities or upgrading of capacity of EEE placed on the market before 22 July 2019, and of medical devices, including in vitro medical devices, and monitoring and control instruments, including industrial monitoring and control instruments, placed on the market before 22 July 2021.

The restriction of DEHP, BBP and DBP shall not apply to toys which are already subject to the restriction of DEHP, BBP and DBP through entry 51 of Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.

