Chapter IV, Article 17 · Council Directive (EU) 2026/1194

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Article 17Transposition#

1.Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Article 8(2), (3) and (4), Articles 9 and 10, Article 11(1) and (3), Articles 12 and 14 and Annex I by 25 June 2028. They shall immediately communicate the text of those measures to the Commission.When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the Directive(s) repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.

2.Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

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basic local government unit
means an administrative entity as listed in Annex I which, in accordance with the laws of the relevant Member State, contains one or more bodies elected by direct universal suffrage and is empowered to administer, at the basic level of political and administrative organisation, certain local affairs under its own responsibility;
electoral roll
means the official register of all voters entitled to vote in a given basic local government unit or in one of its subdivisions, drawn up and kept up to date by the competent authority under the electoral law of the Member State of residence, or the population register if it indicates eligibility to vote;
formal declaration
means a declaration by the person concerned, inaccuracy in which makes that person liable to penalties, in accordance with the applicable national law.
home Member State
means the Member State of which a Union citizen is a national;
Member State of residence
means the Member State in which a Union citizen resides but of which the Union citizen is not a national;
municipal elections
means elections by direct universal suffrage to appoint the members of the representative council and, where appropriate, under the laws of the relevant Member State, the head and members of the executive of a basic local government unit;
reference date
means the day or the days on which Union citizens have to satisfy, under the law of the Member State of residence, the requirements for voting or for standing as a candidate in that Member State;