Article 1
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.