Directive 2004/39/EC is hereby amended as follows:
(1) Recital 69 shall be replaced by the following:
'(69) The European Parliament should be given a period of three months from the first transmission of draft amendments and implementing measures to allow it to examine them and to give its opinion. However, in urgent and duly justified cases, it should be possible to shorten that period. If, within that period, a resolution is adopted by the European Parliament, the Commission should re-examine the draft amendments or measures.';
(2) Article 64 shall be amended as follows:
(a) the following paragraph shall be inserted:
'2a. None of the implementing measures enacted may change the essential provisions of this Directive.';
(b) paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following:
'3. Without prejudice to the implementing measures already adopted, on 1 April 2008 at the latest, the application of this Directive's provisions requiring the adoption of technical rules, amendments and decision