Implementing Decision 2009/1008/EU is hereby amended as follows:

1. (1)

   in Article 2, the date ‘31 December 2012’ is replaced by that of ‘31 December 2015’;

2. (2)

   the following article is inserted:

   ‘Article 2a

   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.’.

This Decision shall take effect on the day of its notification.

It shall apply from 1 January 2013.

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Latvia.