Regulation (EC) No 1265/2001 is hereby amended as follows:
1.
The following paragraph is added to Article 11:
‘5. At the request of the interested party, the competent authority of the Member State shall cancel refund certificates which have not been fully used and have not passed their final date of validity. The relevant security shall be released for the amount unused.
Member States shall inform the Commission at the end of each month of the quantity of refund certificates cancelled in the course of the previous month, broken down by month of issue of the refund certificate.’
2.
The following paragraph is added to Article 14:
‘3. The refund certificate shall be valid only for the basic products referred to in Article 1 which are produced under quota in the 2005/2006 marketing year or previous marketing years.’
3.
The following sentence is added to Article 15:
‘However, the refund certificates shall no longer be valid after 31 August 2006.’
4.
The following paragraph is added to Article 17:
‘3. Member States shall take the necessary additional steps to ensure the proper application of the provisions of Article 14(3).’
Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 is hereby amended as follows:
1.
Article 4a(5) is deleted;
2.
The following sentence is added to the third subparagraph of Article 4c(1):
‘The notification for the 2005/2006 marketing year shall be made before 1 December 2006.’
3.
Article 8 is amended as follows:
(a)
The following subparagraph is added to paragraph 1:
‘In respect of the 2005/2006 marketing year, the amounts and the coefficients referred to in points (a) and (b) of the first subparagraph shall be fixed before 15 February 2007.’;
(b)
paragraph 2 is amended as follows:
(i)
the following sentence is added to the first subparagraph:
‘For the 2005/2006 marketing year, these balances shall be determined before 28 February 2007.’;
(ii)
the following sentence is added to the second subparagraph:
‘For the 2005/2006 marketing year, this payment shall be made before 15 April 2007.’
