
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 6(1):

— in the first subparagraph, introductory wording, ‘Malta’ shall be inserted after ‘Ireland’,
— in the third subparagraph, ‘these three Member States’ shall be replaced by ‘these four Member States’.
2.. In Annex II, ‘Lists of countries and territories’, Part A, ‘Malta’ shall be inserted after ‘Ireland’.
Article 2 
This Decision shall apply from the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 13 September 2004.
For the Council
The President
B. R. BOT