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Repeal of Directive 2009/48/EC, transition, application dates
Penalties, the repeal of the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC, the transitional window for toys already on the market, and when the Regulation applies.
Article 55 — Penalties
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 (Toy Safety Regulation) 32025R2509), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall, by 1 August 2028, notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it, without delay, of any subsequent amendment affecting them.
Article 56 — Repeal
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 (Toy Safety Regulation) 32025R2509), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
Directive 2009/48/EC is repealed with effect from 1 August 2030.
References to the repealed Directive 2009/48/EC shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex VIII.
Article 57 — Transitional provisions
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 (Toy Safety Regulation) 32025R2509), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
1. Member States shall not impede the making available on the market of toys which were placed on the market in conformity with Directive 2009/48/EC before 1 August 2030.
2. Chapter VIII of this Regulation shall apply mutatis mutandis instead of Article 42, 43 and 45 of Directive 2009/48/EC to toys which were placed on the market in conformity with that Directive before 1 August 2030, including toys for which a procedure has already been initiated in accordance with Article 42 or 43 of Directive 2009/48/EC before 1 August 2030.
3. EC type-examination certificates issued in accordance with Article 20 of Directive 2009/48/EC shall remain valid until 1 February 2031, unless they expire before that date.
Article 59 — Entry into force and application
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 (Toy Safety Regulation) 32025R2509), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 August 2030.
However, Articles 28 to 44 and Articles 49 to 55 shall apply from 1 January 2026.
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