
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 716/96 is amended as follows:

1.. in Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. The United Kingdom competent authority shall be authorised to purchase any bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996, which does not show any clinical sign of BSE, presented to it by any producer or his agent, which was, during a period of at least six months prior to its sale, present on a holding located on the territory of the United Kingdom.'
2.. Article 2 is amended as follows:

((a)) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. The price to be paid to producers or their agents by the United Kingdom competent authority pursuant to Article 1(1) shall be:
— EUR 360 per animal for purchases made until 31 December 2006,
— EUR 324 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2007,
— EUR 292 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2008.'
((b)) paragraph 2 is deleted.
((c)) the first subparagraph of paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
'For each purchased animal destroyed in accordance with the provisions in Article 1, the Community shall co-finance the expenditure incurred by the United Kingdom for the purchases referred to under Article 1(1) at a rate of:
— EUR 180 per animal for purchases made until 31 December 2006,
— EUR 162 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2007,
— EUR 146 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2008.'
((d)) paragraph 4 is deleted.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 23 January 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 21 December 2005.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission