Chapter XI, delegated acts, implementing powers and final provisions
Article 31: Transposition
National measures were due by 28 June 2022 and apply from 28 June 2025; only the Article 4(8) 112 duty may be deferred to 28 June 2027.
- Citation
- Article 31, CELEX 32019L0882 (Directive)
- Binds
- Member States; the dates are the ones an operator must use.
- In the instrument
- Chapter XI, delegated acts, implementing powers and final provisions
- Applies from
- 28 June 2025 for products placed and services provided from that date (Article 31(2)). The Article 4(8) 112 duty may be deferred to 28 June 2027 where a member state uses Article 31(3).
- Source
- EUR-Lex, CELEX 32019L0882
What it requires
Paragraph 1 required member states to adopt and publish the laws, regulations and administrative provisions needed to comply by 28 June 2022, and to communicate the text to the Commission immediately. Paragraph 2 required the national measures to be in force from 28 June 2025.
Paragraph 3 is the only derogation on the date. A member state may decide to apply the measures for the obligations in Article 4(8), the answering of 112 emergency communications, no later than 28 June 2027. It is not a general extension and it does not move the product or service dates.
Paragraph 4 requires the national measures to cite the Directive, or to carry a citation alongside them when they are published. Paragraph 5 requires communication of the main national measures. Paragraph 6 requires a member state that uses the Article 4(4) built-environment option to communicate those measures and report on implementation.
In practice
Use the dates in this order: 28 June 2022 was the legislator's deadline, 28 June 2025 is when the duties apply, and 28 June 2027 is only the 112 derogation. If a board paper still says 2027 is the deadline, correct it with Article 31(3) in the footnote and replace the programme date with 2025. A plan built on the wrong date is the most expensive error in this file.
What to do
- Use 28 June 2025 as the application date for products and services.
- Check the national transposition text in each member state of supply.
- Treat 28 June 2027 as relevant only to the 112 duty and only where the derogation was used.
- Do not describe 28 June 2022 as a deadline you can still act on; it was the legislator's deadline.
Evidence to keep
- The national transposition instrument for each member state, with its date.
- A note of whether the member state used the Article 31(3) derogation.
- The application date used in the product or service plan.
Dates
- 2022-06-28Deadline for member states to adopt and publish the national measures. (Article 31(1))
- 2025-06-28Date from which the national measures apply. (Article 31(2))
- 2027-06-28Latest date for the Article 4(8) 112 duty where a member state uses the derogation. (Article 31(3))
Cross-references
Where teams get this wrong
The date most often misquoted is 28 June 2027. It is a narrow derogation for emergency communications, not the transposition deadline and not the start of the product or service duties.
Read from the Official Journal text of Directive (EU) 2019/882, OJ L 151/70, 7 June 2019, Article 31. Check it yourself: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019L0882. This page states the provision in our own words and is not legal advice; it does not certify any product or service.