L 116/14 Official Journal of the European Union 29.4.2006 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 658/2006 of 27 April 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the single payment scheme provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 ("), and in particular Article 60(2), Article 145(c), (d) and (d)(b) and Article 155 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 of 21 April 2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the single payment scheme provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (?) introduces the implementing rules for the single payment scheme as from 2005. (2)  Experience of the administrative and operational imple- mentation of that scheme at national level has shown that in certain respects further detailed rules are needed and in other respects the existing rules need to be clarified and adapted. (3)  Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 as amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 319/2006 defines the rules for the de- coupled support and the integration of the support for sugar beet, cane and chicory into the single payment scheme. The related detailed rules should therefore be adopted. Those detailed rules should follow the same lines as those already laid down in Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 with regard to olive oil, tobacco, cotton and hops. (4  The application of Article 42 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 to all sectors included in the single payment scheme after the first year of application may lead to the situation that the amounts that remain in the national reserve after allocation of reference amounts from that national reserve in the cases provided for in that Article are not needed anymore to cover any further () OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 319/2006 (O] L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 32). () OJ L 141, 30.4.2004, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 2183/2005 (O] L 347, 30.12.2005, p. 56). cases. In that case the Member States should be authorised to increase proportionally the unit value of all payment entitlements. (5)  Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 provides for the detailed rules for farmers who made investments in production capacity or who leased parcels on a long- term basis. Those provisions need to be adapted in order to take into account the special situation of farmers in the sugar sector who made such investments or entered into such long-term lease-contracts before the entry into force of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (3). (6)  Experience shows that there is a need for clarification of the dates at which a farmer applying for aid under the single payment scheme has to hold the payment enti- tlements. (7)  The rules in case of transfers of payment entitlements should be clarified in order to enable a transfer to take place on the date foreseen in the communication of the transfer to the competent authority, unless the competent authority objects to the transfer and notifies the transferor thereof within the time period established by the Member State. (8)  Article 48c of Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 needs to be adapted in respect of Member States which already started to apply the single payment scheme in 2005. (9)  The integration of the sugar reference amounts into the single payment scheme was decided by Council Regu- lation (EC) No 319/2006 of 20 February 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers. Member States therefore only have very short time-limits to take the necessary steps to comply with that integration. Measures should be taken to ensure a smooth transition from the old sugar-related schemes to the integration into the single payment scheme. In particular, it should be ensured that farmers may make use of their rights within reasonable time-limits. Where that possibility is at jeopardy, Member States should have to provide for a prolongation of the application  time-limits fixed in Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. () O] L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1.