
Article 1 

1. By way of derogation from Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1464/95, Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 174/1999, Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003, Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 633/2004, Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1138/2005, Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006 and Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 958/2006, the term of validity of export licences issued pursuant to those Regulations and applied for by 20 July 2006 shall, on application by the holder, be extended by:
(a) three months for licences whose term of validity expires during the month of July;
(b) two months for licences whose term of validity expires during the month of August;
(c) one month for licences whose term of validity expires during the month of September.
2. By way of derogation from Article 32(1)(b)(i) of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 and from Article 7(1) and Article 34(1) of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999, the 60-day time-limit shall, on application by the exporter, be extended to 150 days for products for which the customs export formalities have been completed or which were placed under any of the arrangements referred to in Articles 4 and 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 565/80 by 20 July 2006 at the latest.
3. The increases of 10 % and 15 % referred to in Article 25(1) and in the second subparagraph of Article 35(1) respectively, and the 20 % reduction referred to in Article 18(3) of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 shall not apply to exports carried out under licences and applied for by 20 July 2006 at the latest.If entitlement to refund is lost due to the exceptional circumstances in Lebanon, the penalty provided for by Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 shall not apply.
Article 2 
Article 1 shall apply to the products listed in sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13 and 14 in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 insofar as the exporter concerned can supply proof to the satisfaction of the competent authorities that the products were destined for Lebanon.
The competent authorities shall base their assessment on the export licence, the export declaration or the commercial documents referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4045/89.
Article 3 
By 31 January 2007, Member States shall notify the Commission of the quantities of the products concerned by each of the measures laid down in Article 1, detailing the number and date of issue of the licence, the export refunds nomenclature code, the quantity of the products, the initial term of validity and the extended term of validity.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 July 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 23 August 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission