
Article 1 
Applications for export licences with advance fixing of the refund for the export of adult male bovine animals for slaughter (CN code 0102 90 71 9000) to Egypt and the Lebanon lodged during the four working days preceding the entry into force of this Regulation shall be rejected.
The lodging of applications for export licences for these animals shall be suspended for five working days following the entry into force of this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 22 December 2005.
For the Commission
J. M. SILVA RODRÍGUEZ
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development