
Article 1 
The following Article 3a is inserted in Regulation (EC) No 493/2006:
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Article 3a 

1. For deliveries of industrial sugar made until 30 September 2007 under the contracts referred to in Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 967/2006, the competent authorities of the Member States may allow producers, at their request, to deliver sugar they have produced under quota, including sugar withdrawn under Article 3 of this Regulation, in place of industrial sugar produced in excess of the quota.
2. Quantities of sugar delivered in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be entered in the accounts as industrial raw material delivered to a processor as provided for in point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 967/2006 for the 2007/2008 marketing year.
3. The communications provided for in Article 8 and 10 of Regulation (EC) No 967/2006 shall indicate separately the quantity delivered in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article.'
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, 8 February 2007.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission