1.Import licences for rice against applications submitted during the first five working days of October 2006 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 638/2003 and notified to the Commission shall be issued for the quantities applied for multiplied, where appropriate, by the reduction percentages stipulated in the Annex to this Regulation.
2.The final percentage take-up of each quota concerned for 2006 is set out in the Annex.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 October 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 19 October 2006.
For the Commission
Jean-Luc Demarty
Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development