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.