Article 1
Open ↗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 ( 12 ) , — 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.