Article 43 All the provisions of Book I of the Penal Code, including Chapter VII and Article 858 shall apply to the offences defined in this law or in its implementing decrees. Chapter IX - Final provisions Article 44 The King may lay down in a decree agreed upon in the Council of Ministers after advice of the Commission for the protection of privacy specific rules with regard to the application of the provisions of this law taking into account the specificity of the various sectors. Professional associations and other organisations representing categories of persons responsible for the processing who have established drafts of codes of conduct or intend to modify or prolong existing codes of conduct may submit them to the Commission for the protection of privacy. In particular the Commission shall verify whether the drafts that are submitted to it are in accordance with this law and the decrees that have been taken in implementation thereof, and investigate, as far as possible, the standpoints of the persons concerned or of their representatives. Article 45 The King may appoint the authorities that shall order in times of war or in times that are equated therewith in accordance with Article 7 of the law of May 12, 1927 on military requisitions, as well as during the occupation of the Belgian territory by the enemy, the destruction of data that are processed, or that shall be in charge of the destruction themselves. The King may also determine the amounts of compensation with regard to the destructions referred to in the previous section. Any person who offends against the decrees taken in implementation of the first section, makes use in an unlawful way or abuses the right to destroy laid down in it, shall be punished with a fine of hundred to one hundred thousand francs. Article 46 - 51 [amending provisions] Article 52 Any provision of this law shall come into effect on the date laid down by the King and at the latest on the first day of the twenty fourth month following publication of this law in the Belgian State Gazette. The King shall determine the period of time within which the controller shall have to comply with the provisions of this law in respect to the processing operations that exist on the moment of their coming into effect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26