
Article 1 
Implementing Decision 2010/39/EU is hereby amended as follows:

((1)) In second paragraph of Article 4, the date ‘31 December 2012’ is replaced by that of ‘31 December 2015’;
((2)) The following article is inserted:
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Article 4a 
Any request for the extension of the measure provided for in this Decision shall be submitted to the Commission by 31 March 2015 and shall be accompanied by a report on the application of that measure.'.
Article 2 
This Decision shall take effect on the day of its notification.
It shall apply from 1 January 2013.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
Done at Brussels, 22 January 2013.
For the Council
The President
M. NOONAN