
Article 1 
Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. the following paragraph 3a is inserted:
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3a For the marketing year 2006/2007, the Member States shall allocate to all undertakings that are in receipt of a sugar quota for the aforesaid marketing year, pursuant to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, and that have used that quota exclusively to produce sugar by extraction from molasses, a transitional quota equal to 25 % of the said quota. This transitional quota may be used only for the production of sugar by extraction from molasses.';
2.. in paragraph 4, the introductory words are replaced by the following:
'The transitional quotas laid down in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 3a.';
3.. paragraph 6 is replaced by the following paragraphs 6 and 7:
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6. Member States shall communicate the following information to the Commission:
(a) before 15 July 2006, a breakdown by undertaking of the transitional quotas allocated under paragraphs 1, 2 and 3;
(b) before 30 June 2007, a breakdown by undertaking of the transitional quotas allocated under paragraph 3a.
7. The Member States shall introduce a control system and shall take all the necessary steps to verify the production of the products referred to in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 3a, ensuring in particular that the sugar corresponds to sugar beet sown before 1 January 2006.The Member States shall notify the Commission, before 31 December 2007, of the control measures taken and the results thereof.'
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, 28 June 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission