PURPOSE: the codification of Directive 90/396/EEC relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2009/142/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels (codified version).
CONTENT: the purpose of this Directive is to codify Council Directive 90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels. The new Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. It fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together, with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 05/01/2010.