
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1931/2006 is hereby amended as follows:

((1)) at the end of Article 3, point (2), the following sentence is added:
‘The areas listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall be considered as part of the border area;’;
((2)) the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation is added as an Annex.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.Done at Strasbourg, 13 December 2011.
For the European Parliament
The President
J. BUZEK
For the Council
The President
M. SZPUNAR
ANNEX


‘ANNEX  1. Kaliningrad oblast
 2. Polish administrative districts (powiaty) of województwo pomorskie: pucki, m. Gdynia, m. Sopot, m. Gdańsk, gdański, nowodworski, malborski
 3. Polish administrative districts (powiaty) of województwo warmińsko-mazurskie: m. Elbląg, elbląski, braniewski, lidzbarski, bartoszycki, m. Olsztyn, olsztyński, kętrzyński, mrągowski, węgorzewski, giżycki, gołdapski, olecki’.

