
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1613/2000 is amended as follows:

— in Article 2, ‘31 December 2004’ is replaced by ‘31 December 2006’;
— the following paragraph is added:
'The continuing need for the derogation shall however be reviewed not later than 31 December 2005, in accordance with the new provisions to be adopted with regard to the generalised system of preferences and the rules of origin related thereto'.
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 2005.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 December 2004.
For the Commission
László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission