# Commission Implementing Decision of 24 April 2012 determining the second set of regions for the start of operations of the Visa Information System (VIS) (notified under document C(2012) 2505) (2012/274/EU), Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The regions where the collection and transmission of data to the Visa Information System (VIS) shall start, after the regions determined by Decision 2010/49/EC, according to Article 48(3) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008, are the following:
The fourth region:
Benin,
Burkina Faso,
Cape Verde,
Côte d’Ivoire,
The Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Liberia,
Mali,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Togo.
The fifth region:
Burundi,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Chad,
Congo,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon,
Rwanda,
São Tomé and Príncipe.
The sixth region:
Comoros,
Djibouti,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Madagascar,
Mauritius,
Seychelles,
Somalia,
South Sudan,
Sudan,
Tanzania,
Uganda.
The seventh region:
Angola,
Botswana,
Lesotho,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
South Africa,
Swaziland,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe.
The eighth region:
Argentina,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Chile,
Colombia,
Ecuador,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Uruguay,
Venezuela.
The ninth region:
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan.
The 10th region:
Brunei,
Burma/Myanmar,
Cambodia,
Indonesia,
Laos,
Malaysia,
Philippines,
Singapore,
Thailand,
Vietnam.
The 11th region:
The occupied Palestinian territory.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/274/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-274/article-1
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