
Article 1 
Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 is amended as follows:

((a)) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. Notwithstanding Article 24, a Member State may allow the licence or certificate to be:
(a) lodged with the issuing body or the authority responsible for payment of the refund;
(b) in cases where Article 19 applies, stored in the database of the issuing body or the authority responsible for payment of the refund.'
((b)) paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
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3. The Member State shall decide which authority is to make the entry on and endorse the licence or certificate.However, the attribution and its validation and endorsement on the licence or certificate shall also be deemed to have been carried out where:
(a) a document detailing the exported quantities has been generated by computer; this document must be attached to the licence or certificate and filed with it;
(b) the exported quantities have been introduced in an official electronic database of the Member State concerned and there is a link between this information and the electronic certificate; Member States may choose to archive this information by using paper versions of the electronic documents.The date of entry shall be considered as the date of acceptance of the declaration referred to in Article 24(1).'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 4 December 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission