
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 448/2001 is amended as follows:

1.. In Article 2, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
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3. Without prejudice to the information required on recoveries under Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 438/2001, Member States shall send to the Commission, as an Annex to the last quarterly report of each year supplied under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1681/94, a statement identifying, by measure, the total amounts of public funding withdrawn, following cancellation of all or part of the Community contribution to operations, from statements of expenditure submitted during the preceding year for the programme concerned.'
2.. In Article 3(2), the second sentence is replaced by the following:
‘Member States shall inform the Commission in the report referred to in Article 2(3) of the way in which Community funds released following the withdrawal of funding from the programme have been re-used.’
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following 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 2006.
For the Commission
Danuta HÜBNER
Member of the Commission