
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. In Article 3(2), third subparagraph, the following sentence is added:
‘In the case of butter allocated to Member States under the 2006 annual plan, where the allocations involve amounts in excess of 500 tonnes, 70 % of the butter must be withdrawn from intervention stocks before 1 March 2006.’
2.. Article 4 is amended as follows:

((a)) in paragraph 1(b), the following subparagraph is inserted after the third subparagraph:
'Similarly, where no cereals are available in intervention stocks, the Commission may authorise the removal of rice from intervention stocks to pay for the supply of cereals or cereal products mobilised on the market.'
((b)) in paragraph 2(a), fourth subparagraph, the following sentence is added:
‘Similarly, where supply involves cereals or cereal products in exchange for rice withdrawn from intervention stocks, the invitation to tender shall specify that the product to be withdrawn is a specific rice held by an intervention agency.’
3.. In Article 7(2), the second sentence is replaced by the following:
‘The application for reimbursement shall include all necessary supporting documents, particularly those concerning the transport.’
4.. In Article 10, the first sentence of the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘No later than 30 June each year, the Member States shall send the Commission a report on the implementation of the plan on their territory during the previous year.’
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 26 January 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission