Article 1
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.