
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 is amended as follows:

1.. in Article 5, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
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4. For aid granted for supplying certain milk products to pupils as referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2707/2000, the operative event for the exchange rate shall be the first day of the period to which the payment application referred to in Article 11 of that Regulation relates.';
2.. in Article 11, point (c) is replaced by the following text:
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((c)) for the minimum price for beet referred to in Article 6, the average rate established by the European Central Bank (ECB) for the month prior to the operative event.';
3.. Article 18 is replaced by the following:
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Article 18 
Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1670/2006 is replaced by the following:

2. The rate of the refund shall be that applicable on the day on which the cereals are placed under control. However, as regards the quantities distilled in each of the fiscal distillation periods following that in which the placing under control occurred, the rate shall be that applicable on the first day of each fiscal distillation period concerned.The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the refund shall be that referred to in Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006. ';
4.. Article 21 is replaced by the following:
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Article 21 
Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1669/2006 is replaced by the following:

Article 16 
The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the amount and to the prices referred to in Article 11 and to the security referred to in Article 9 shall be those referred to in point (a) of Article 8 and in Article 10 respectively of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006. '
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 24 July 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission