
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. In Article 3, paragraph 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:
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1. For each undertaking, the share of the production of sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup in the 2006/07 marketing year which is produced under the quota allocated in accordance with the quotas laid down in Annex IV and which exceeds the threshold established in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article shall be considered withdrawn within the meaning of Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 or, at the request of the undertaking concerned submitted before 31 January 2007, shall be considered fully or partially to be produced in excess of the quota within the meaning of Article 12 of that Regulation.
2. For each undertaking, the threshold mentioned in paragraph 1 shall be calculated by multiplying its quota mentioned in paragraph 1 by the sum of the following coefficients:
(a) the coefficient laid down for the Member State in Annex I;
(b) the coefficient obtained by dividing the sum of the quotas renounced in the 2006/07 marketing year in the Member State concerned under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 by the quota fixed for that Member State in Annex IV to this Regulation. The Commission shall fix this coefficient not later than 15 October 2006.However, where the sum of the coefficients exceeds 1,0000, the threshold shall be equal to the quota referred to in paragraph 1.';
2.. The following subparagraph shall be added to Article 4(2):
'The flat-rate amount mentioned in Article 2(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 is hereby fixed for the period from 1 July to 30 October 2006 at EUR 34,19 per tonne.';
3.. The following subparagraph is added to Article 9(1):
'Where, for a given undertaking, the transitional quotas allocated in accordance with this paragraph exceed production in respect of the 2006/07 marketing year, the Member State may allocate to such an undertaking the remainder of those quotas for the 2007/08 marketing year.';
4.. The following Article 10a is added to the end of Chapter I:
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Article 10a 
By way of derogation from Point V of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, where merger or transfer occurs between 1 July and 30 September 2006, the measures mentioned in Points II and III of that that annex shall, at the request of the undertakings concerned, take effect for the 2006/07 marketing year.';
5.. The Annex to this Regulation is added as Annex IV.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 13 October 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX


ANNEX IV 
Member State or regions Sugar Isoglucose Inulin syrup
(1) (2) (3) (4)
Belgium 819 812 71 592 215 247
Czech Republic 454 862 — —
Denmark 420 746 — —
Germany 3 416 896 35 389 —
Greece 317 502 12 893 —
Spain 996 961 82 579 —
France (metropolitan) 3 288 747 19 846 24 521
France (Overseas Departments) 480 245 — —
Ireland 199 260 — —
Italy 1 557 443 20 302 —
Latvia 66 505 — —
Lithuania 103 010 — —
Hungary 401 684 137 627 —
Netherlands 864 560 9 099 80 950
Austria 387 326 — —
Poland 1 671 926 26 781 —
Portugal (mainland) 69 718 9 917 —
Portugal (Azores) 9 953 — —
Slovenia 52 973 — —
Slovakia 207 432 42 547 —
Finland 146 087 11 872 —
Sweden 368 262 — —
United Kingdom 1 138 627 27 237 —
