This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2012.
However, the amendments to the following entries in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 669/2009 shall apply from the date of entry into force of this Regulation:
The deletion of the following entries on:
groundnuts (in shell or shelled), peanut butter and groundnuts otherwise prepared and preserved (food and feed) from Argentina;
lauki (food) from the Dominican Republic;
green beans (food) from Egypt;
the decrease in frequency of physical and identity checks for dried spices (food) from India.