Next steps and transposition period 

 
 

Aqsam din il-paġna ma' ħaddieħor: 

The provisional deal still needs to be voted by the full Parliament in an upcoming plenary session (probably in March 2017) and formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers.


Member states will have 15 months after the date of entry into force of the directive to transpose the new rules into national law and 30 months to introduce new systems for sharing of information. They may decide to suspend the requirement for declaring deactivated weapons and prior category D firearms for 30 months from the entry into force of the directive.