This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

It shall apply from the date referred to in Article 48(1) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008.

It shall expire on the date from which the collection and transmission of the data referred to in Article 5(1) of the Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 becomes mandatory for all applications in the last region where the VIS is deployed, in accordance with the decision to be adopted by the Commission referred to in Article 48(3) of the VIS Regulation.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.

Done at Brussels, 3 October 2011.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel BARROSO

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 977/2011 of 3 October 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code)