
Article 1 
Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1615/2000 is amended as follows:

1.. In the first paragraph the date ‘31 December 2006’ is replaced by ‘31 December 2008’;
2.. The second paragraph is replaced by the following:
'The continuing need for the derogation shall however be reviewed once the new rules of origin of the generalised system of preferences are adopted.'
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 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 7 December 2006.
For the Commission
László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission