Article 1U.K.

Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 990/2006 is hereby replaced by the following text:

2.Notwithstanding Article 17(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2131/93, the obligation to export shall be covered by a security equal to the difference between the intervention price applying on the day of the award and the price awarded, but not less than EUR 50 per tonne for rye and EUR 25 per tonne in the case of other cereals. Half of this security shall be lodged when the export licence is issued and the balance shall be lodged before the cereals are removed from the place of storage.

Article 2U.K.

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, 17 January 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission