Addressees

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

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(9)This Directive should fully harmonise certain key rules that have, so far, not been regulated at Union or national level.
(81)The Annex to Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 of the European Parliament and of the Council [(16)](#ntr16-L_2019136EN.01000101-E0016) should be amended to include a reference to this Directive so as to facilitate cross-border cooperation on enforcement of this Directive.
(84)In accordance with the Joint Political Declaration of 28 September 2011 of Member States and the Commission on explanatory documents [(18)](#ntr18-L_2019136EN.01000101-E0018), Member States have undertaken to accompany, in justified cases, the notification of their transposition measures with one or more documents explaining the relationship between the components of a directive and the corresponding parts of national transposition instruments. With regard to this Directive, the legislator considers the transmission of such documents to be justified.
(87)This Directive respects the fundamental rights and freedoms and observes the principles recognised, in particular, by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including those enshrined in Articles 16, 38 and 47 thereof,

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