Article 1

The regions where the collection and transmission of data to the Visa Information System (VIS) shall start, after the regions determined by Implementing Decision 2012/274/EU, according to Article 48(3) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008, are the following:

• The 12th region:

  • Costa Rica,

  • El Salvador,

  • Guatemala,

  • Honduras,

  • Nicaragua,

  • Panama.

• The 13th region:

  • Canada,

  • Mexico,

  • United States.

• The 14th region:

  • Antigua and Barbuda,

  • Bahamas,

  • Barbados,

  • Belize,

  • Cuba,

  • Dominica,

  • Dominican Republic,

  • Grenada,

  • Guyana,

  • Haiti,

  • Jamaica,

  • Saint Kitts and Nevis,

  • Saint Lucia,

  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,

  • Suriname,

  • Trinidad and Tobago.

• The 15th region:

  • Australia,

  • Fiji,

  • Kiribati,

  • Marshall Islands,

  • Micronesia,

  • Nauru,

  • New Zealand,

  • Palau,

  • Papua New Guinea,

  • Samoa,

  • Solomon Islands,

  • Timor-Leste,

  • Tonga,

  • Tuvalu,

  • Vanuatu.

• The 16th region:

  • Albania,

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina,

  • former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(FYROM),

  • Kosovo^f1,

  • Montenegro,

  • Serbia,

  • Turkey.

• The 17th region:

  • Armenia,

  • Azerbaijan,

  • Belarus,

  • Georgia,

  • Republic of Moldova,

  • Ukraine.

• The 18th region:

  Russia.

• The 19th region:

  • China,

  • Japan,

  • Mongolia,

  • North Korea,

  • South Korea,

  • Taiwan.

• The 20th region:

  • Bangladesh,

  • Bhutan,

  • India,

  • Maldives,

  • Nepal,

  • Pakistan,

  • Sri-Lanka.

• The 21st region:

  • Andorra,

  • Holy See,

  • Monaco,

  • San Marino.

• The 22nd region:

  • Ireland,

  • United Kingdom.

• The 23rd region:

  • Austria,

  • Belgium,

  • Bulgaria,

  • Croatia,

  • Cyprus,

  • Czech Republic,

  • Denmark,

  • Estonia,

  • Finland,

  • France,

  • Germany,

  • Greece,

  • Hungary,

  • Italy,

  • Iceland,

  • Latvia,

  • Liechtenstein,

  • Lithuania,

  • Luxembourg,

  • Malta,

  • the Netherlands,

  • Norway,

  • Poland,

  • Portugal,

  • Romania,

  • Slovakia,

  • Slovenia,

  • Spain,

  • Sweden,

  • Switzerland.