
Article 1 
Annex I to Directive 74/483/EEC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 
With effect from 4 April 2009, a Member State, on grounds related to external projections, shall refuse to grant EC type-approval or national type-approval of a type of vehicle if the requirements laid down in Directive 74/483/EEC, as amended by this Directive, are not complied with.
Article 3 

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 4 April 2008 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 and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.They shall apply those provisions from 5 April 2008.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 4 
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 March 2007.
For the Commission
Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President
ANNEX

Point 6.5.2. of Annex I to Directive 74/483/EEC is replaced by the following:
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6.5.2. 
This provision applies to that part of the bumper lying between tangential points of contact of the contour line with two vertical planes each set at an angle of 15 degrees with the vertical longitudinal plane of symmetry of the vehicle (see Figure 1).


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