Regulation (EC) No 55/2008 is hereby amended as follows:

1. (1)

   in Article 16, the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:

   ‘It shall apply until 31 December 2015.

   The preferences provided for in this Regulation shall cease to apply, in whole or in part, should they not be permitted, in whole or in part, by a waiver granted by the World Trade Organization.

   Those preferences shall cease to apply from the day on which the waiver is no longer in effect.

   The Commission shall, sufficiently prior to that date, publish a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union to inform operators and the competent authorities thereof. The notice shall specify which preferences provided for by this Regulation will no longer apply and the date on which they cease to apply.’;

2. (2)

   Table 1 of Annex I is replaced by the table appearing in the Annex to this Regulation.