
Article 1 

1. Import licences for rice against applications submitted during the first five working days of February 2006 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 638/2003 and notified to the Commission shall be issued for the quantities applied for reduced, where appropriate, by the percentages set out in the Annex hereto.
2. The available quantities carried over to the subsequent tranche are set out in the Annex hereto.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 February 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 17 February 2006.
For the Commission
J. L. DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
ANNEX
Origin/product Reduction percentage Quantity carried over to the tranche for May 2006 (t)
Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Least-developed OCTs Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Least-developed OCTs
OCT (Article 10(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 638/2003)
— CN code 1006
 0 0 5 839,936 3 334
Origin/product Reduction percentage Quantity carried over to the tranche for May 2006 (t)
ACP (Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 638/2003)
— CN codes 1006 10 21 to 1006 10 98, 1006 20 and 1006 30
 0 4 767,115
ACP (Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 638/2003)
— CN codes 1006 40 00
 0 9 164
