Article 1
Decision 2003/17/EC is hereby amended as follows:
- (1)
Article 4 is deleted;
- (2)
Article 5 is deleted;
- (3)
in Article 6, the date ‘31 December 2012’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2022’;
- (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