Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 669/2009 is amended as follows:

  1. 1.

    Article 19 is replaced by the following:

    ‘Article 19Transitional measures

    1.

    For a period of five years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation, where a designated point of entry is not equipped with the facilities required to carry out identity and physical checks as provided for in Article 8(1)(b), those checks may be carried out at another control point in the same Member State, authorised for that purpose by the competent authority, before goods are declared for release for free circulation, provided that such control point complies with the minimum requirements laid down in Article 4.

    2.

    Member States shall make publicly available, by electronic publication on their website, a list of the control points authorised in accordance with paragraph 1.’

  2. 2.

    The Annexes are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.