2012/419/EU: European Council Decision of 11 July 2012 amending the status of Mayotte with regard to the European Union

With effect from 1 January 2014, Mayotte shall cease to be an overseas country or territory, to which the provisions of Part Four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) apply, and shall become an outermost region of the Union within the meaning of Article 349 TFEU.

The TFEU shall be amended as follows: (1) in the first paragraph of Article 349, the word ‘Mayotte’ shall be inserted after the word ‘Martinique’; (2) in Article 355(1), the word ‘Mayotte’ shall be inserted after the word ‘Martinique’; (3) in Annex II, the sixth indent shall be deleted.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption. It shall apply from 1 January 2014.