Article 1

Decision 2003/17/EC is hereby amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    Article 4 is deleted;

  2. (2)

    Article 5 is deleted;

  3. (3)

    in Article 6, the date ‘31 December 2012’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2022’;

  4. (4)

    Annex I is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2013.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Strasbourg, 21 November 2012.

For the European Parliament

The President

M. Schulz

For the Council

The President

A. D. Mavroyiannis