L 169/10 Official Journal of the European Union 22.6.2006 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 915/2006 of 21 June 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 2148/96 laying down rules for evaluating and monitoring public intervention stocks of agricultural products THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3492/90 of 27 November 1990 laying down the factors to be taken into consideration in the annual accounts for the financing of inter- vention measures in the form of public storage by the European Agricultural  Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section (1), and in particular Article 8 thereof, Whereas: (),  Annex II to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2148/96 (?) sets out the rules for the physical inspection procedure of agricultural products held in public storage. (2)  Public storage of sugar has commenced in 2005 in accordance with the rules provided for in Council Regu- lation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector ) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1262/2001 of 27 June 2001 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 as regards the buying in and sale of sugar by intervention agencies (*. New detailed rules should therefore be laid down in Regulation (EC) No 2148/96 as regards the procedure for the physical inspection of the stores as regards sugar. (3)  Regulation (EC) No 2148/96 should therefore be amended accordingly. (4)  Given that intervention in sugar commenced for the 2004/05 marketing year without detailed inventory rules having been laid down, the manner in which certain Member States have organised the storage of sugar stocks makes it excessively difficult to carry out an inventory according to the normal procedures. Transi- tional rules should therefore be laid down for sugar stocks from the 2004/05 and 2005/06 marketing years. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 2148/96 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation. Atrticle 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 21 June 2006. () O] L 337, 4.12.1990, p. 3. (®» OJ L 288, 9.11.1996, p. 6. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 808/1999 (O] L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 70). () O) L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 (O] L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16). () OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 48. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 218/2006 (O] L 38, 9.2.2006, p. 19). For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission