L 258/8 Official Journal of the European Union 29.8.2014 DECISIONS COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 28 August 2014 determining the date from which the Visa Information System (VIS) is to start operations in a 16th region (2014/540[EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 concerning the Visa Information System (VIS) and the exchange of data between Member States on short-stay visas (VIS Regulation) ("), and in particular Article 48(3) thereof, Whereas: (1) According to Commission Implementing Decision 2013/493/EU (3, the 16th region where the collection and transmission of data to the Visa Information System (VIS) for all applications should start comprises Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo (*), Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey. (2)  The Member States have notified the Commission that they have made the necessary technical and legal arrange- ments to collect and transmit the data referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 to the VIS for all applications in this region, including arrangements for the collection andfor transmission of the data on behalf of another Member State. (3)  The condition laid down by the first sentence of Article 48(3) of Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 thus being fulfilled, it is therefore necessary to determine the date from which the VIS is to start operations in the 16th region. (4)  In view of the need to set the date for the start of the VIS in the very near future, this Decision should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. (5)  Given that Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 builds upon the Schengen acquis, Denmark, in accordance with Article 5 of the Protocol on the position of Denmark annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty estab- lishing the European Community, decided to implement Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 in its national law. Denmark is therefore bound under international law to implement this Decision. (6)  This Decision constitutes a development of provisions of the Schengen acquis in which the United Kingdom does not take part, in accordance with Council Decision 2000/365/EC (). The United Kingdom is therefore not bound by it or subject to its application. (7)  This Decision constitutes a development of provisions of the Schengen acquis in which Ireland does not take part, in accordance with Council Decision 2002/192/EC (). Ireland is therefore not bound by it or subject to its appli- cation. () OJL218,13.8.2008, p. 60. (*) Commission Implementing Decision 2013/493/EU of 30 September 2013 determining the third and last set of regions for the start of operations of the Visa Information System (VIS) (O] L 268, 10.10.2013, p. 13). (*) This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 12441999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence. (*) Council Decision 2000/365/EC of 29 May 2000 concerning the request of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis (O] L 131, 1.6.2000, p. 43). (*) Council Decision 2002/192/EC of 28 February 2002 concerning Ireland’s request to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis (O] L 64, 7.3.2002, p. 20).