Article 2
Article 5 of Directive 2008/118/EC is hereby amended as follows:
- (1)
Point (b) of paragraph (2) is replaced by the following:
- ‘(b)
the French territories referred to in Article 349 and Article 355(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;’.
- ‘(b)
- (2)
Paragraph (5) is replaced by the following:
‘France may give notice, by means of a declaration, that this Directive and the Directives referred to in Article 1 apply to the territories referred to in point (b) of paragraph (2), subject to measures to adapt to the extreme remoteness of those territories, in respect of all or some of the excise goods referred to in Article 1, as from the first day of the second month following the deposit of such declaration.’.