
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 is amended as follows:
In Article 32 the following paragraph is added:
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5. In cases as referred to in Article 40(4) (c) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Member States may authorise all producers affected to use land declared as set aside for animal feed purposes for the year of the single application. Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the set-aside area subject to the authorisation is not used for lucrative purposes, and in particular that no fodder produced on that set-aside land is sold.Member States shall notify to the Commission their decision on the authorisation and its justification.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that 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, 21 December 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission