
Article 1 
Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Annex II, the following alphabetical codes and the corresponding countries are deleted from columns A and B, respectively:

CI Côte d'Ivoire
GH Ghana
PY Paraguay
SZ Swaziland
((2)) in Annex III, the following alphabetical code and the corresponding country is deleted from columns A and B, respectively:

PY Paraguay
((3)) in Annexes II and IV, the following alphabetical code and the corresponding country is deleted from columns A and B, respectively:

GQ Equatorial Guinea
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2018.
Article 1(1) and (2) shall apply from 1 January 2019.
Article 1(3) shall apply from 1 January 2021.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 27 September 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER