
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1531/2002 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 3, Annex I and Annex II shall be repealed;
2.. Articles 4 and 5 shall become Articles 3 and 4 respectively.
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, 27 March 2006.
For the Council
The President
H. GORBACH