COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/69 of 16 January 2019 laying down technical specifications for alarm and signal weapons under Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons has been published on the Offcial Journal of the European Union, on 17 January 2019 (OJ L 15/22 of 17/01/2019).
The Directive, in its Annex, sets out technical specifications for devices with a cartridge holder which are designed to fire only blanks, irritants, other active substances or pyrotechnic signalling rounds (Art. 1).
It is up to Member States to ensure that these devices are subjet to checks in order to determine their compliance with the technical specifications (Art. 2). To this end, each Member State shall designate, at least, one national focal point to provide results of checks to other Member States, when requested (Art. 3).
The deadline to transpose the Directive is 17 January 2020, at the latest.