
Article 1 
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 is amended as follows:

((1)) point 2 of heading (b) is amended as follows:

((a)) in the first indent of the second column, the words ‘Spain (except the autonomous community of Castilla y León)’ are replaced by ‘Spain (except the autonomous communities of Castilla y León and Extremadura)’;
((b)) the second indent of the second column is replaced by the following:
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— and, until 31 March 2014, Ireland, Italy (Apúlia, Emilia-Romagna (the provinces of Parma and Piacenza), Lombardy (except the province of Mantua), Veneto (except the provinces of Rovigo and Venice, the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d’Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani and Masi in the province of Padova and the area situated to the South of highway A4 in the province of Verona)), Lithuania, Slovenia (except the regions Gorenjska, Koroška, Maribor and Notranjska), Slovakia (except the communes of Blahová, Horné Mýto and Okoč (Dunajská Streda County), Hronovce and Hronské Kľačany (Levice County), Dvory nad Žitavou (Nové Zámky County), Málinec (Poltár County), Hrhov (Rožňava County), Veľké Ripňany (Topoľčany County), Kazimír, Luhyňa, Malý Horeš, Svätuše and Zatín (Trebišov County))';
((2)) in the second column of point 3 of heading (d), the words ‘Portugal (except Madeira)’ are replaced by ‘Portugal (except Algarve and Madeira)’.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 April 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 24 April 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO