Article 1

Decision 2006/766/EC is amended as follows:

1.

Annex I is amended as follows:

(a)

the title to Annex I is replaced by the following:

ANNEX I List of third countries from which imports are permitted of live, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods for human consumption (1)”

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

the following entry for Canada is inserted after the entry for Australia:

‘CA

CANADA’

(c)

the following entry for Greenland is inserted after the entry for Chile:

‘GL

GREENLAND’

(d)

the following entry for the United States is inserted after the entry for Turkey:

‘US

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Only until 1 July 2010 and excluding imports of bivalve molluscs harvested in the States of Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.’

2.

Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2010.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 14 December 2009.

For the Commission

Androulla Vassiliou

Member of the Commission