
Article 1 

1. The aid referred to in Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 shall be calculated per tonne of butter or butter equivalent for contracts concluded in 2006 on the basis of the following elements:
(a) for all contracts:
— EUR 17,64 for fixed storage costs,
— EUR 0,31 for the costs of cold storage for each day of contractual storage,
— an amount per day of contractual storage, calculated on the basis of 90 % of the intervention price for butter in force on the day the contractual storage begins and on the basis of an annual interest rate of 2,50 %;and
(b) EUR 103,20 for contracts which have been concluded on the basis of applications received by the intervention agency before 1 July 2006.
2. The intervention agency shall register the date of receipt of the applications to conclude a contract as referred to in Article 30(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 as well as the corresponding quantities and dates of manufacture and the place at which the butter is stored.
3. The Member States shall inform the Commission no later than 12 noon (Brussels time) of each Tuesday of the quantities covered during the preceding week by such applications.
4. Once it is communicated by the Commission to the Member States that the applications have reached 80 000 tonnes Member States shall inform the Commission, each day before 12 noon (Brussels time), of the quantities covered by applications of the preceding day.
5. The Commission will suspend the application of paragraphs 1(b) and 4 once it has observed that the applications referred to in paragraph 1(b) have reached 110 000 tonnes.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Article 29(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999, entry into storage in 2006 may take place from 1 March.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 24 February 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission