2013/493/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 30 September 2013 determining the third and last set of regions for the start of operations of the Visa Information System (VIS) (notified under document C(2013) 5914)

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 , 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.

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Estonia, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Republic of Croatia, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden.