
Article 1 
The lodging of applications for export licences for C sugar in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 1464/95 is hereby suspended from 23 May 2006. Applications for export licences submitted during the period of suspension shall be inadmissible.
Export licences for C sugar issued but not used by 22 May 2006 may be returned to the issuing body during their period of validity. In such cases, notwithstanding Article 35 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000, the security shall be released immediately.
Article 2 
Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 2(1) is replaced by the following:
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1. Without prejudice to decisions to carry forward taken in accordance with Article 1 of this Regulation, C sugar from the 2005/06 marketing year not exported under an export licence issued before 23 May 2006 shall be considered, from that date, to be non-quota sugar, as referred to in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, produced in respect of the 2006/07 marketing year.';
2.. the following sentence is added to the second paragraph of Article 13:
‘Article 2 shall apply from 23 May 2006.’
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 23 May 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 May 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission