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This third questionnaire under Directive 96/61/EC covers the period 2006 to 2008. In view of the experience gained in the implementation of the Directive and the information already obtained through the first questionnaire and further requested in the second questionnaire, the present questionnaire focuses on the changes and progress made by Member States in the actual implementation of the Directive. As regards transposition aspects, the Commission will pursue all necessary actions to ensure full and proper transposition of the Directive into national laws, notably through diligent follow-up of infringement procedures.

In those cases where questions are similar to those of the previous questionnaires, reference can simply be made to previous answers where the situation is unchanged, although this clearly will not be possible for Member States for which this represents the first reporting period. If there have been new developments, these should be described in a new answer. However, in order to help the reader by making questionnaire responses complete, please also generally reproduce the text of the previous answers when they are referred to in this way, unless there are practical reasons against this.

While answering the questionnaire on specific questions regarding general binding rules, or official guidelines issued by administrative bodies, please provide outline information on the type of rules or guidelines and web links or other means of accessing them, as appropriate.