Article 1 
The Union shall approve the amendments to add the following species to Annex II to the Protocol and to delete them from Annex III: (a) Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758); (b) Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque, 1810); (c) Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788); (d) Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838); (e) Leucoraja melitensis (Clark, 1926); (f) Rhinobatos cemiculus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817); (g) Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758); (h) Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834); (i) Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837); (j) Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758).
Article 2 
The Commission is hereby authorised to notify the Depositary of the Protocol, in writing, that the Union approves the amendments specified in Article 1, in accordance with Article 23(2)(iv) of the Barcelona Convention. It shall do so before the expiry of the 180-day period from the adoption of the amendments by the seventeenth meeting of the Contracting Parties.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.