22.12.2005 Official Journal of the European Union L 337)23 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2108/2005 of 21 December 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 on the transfer and sale on the Portuguese market of 80 000 tonnes of common wheat, 80 000 tonnes of maize and 40 000 tonnes of barley held by the Hungarian intervention agency THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (5)  In view of the situation on the Portuguese market, and in particular of the prolonged effects of the drought on the Portuguese agricultural economy and on the conditions for the supply of cereals to economic operators on satis- factory terms, a favourable response should be given to the request from the Portuguese authorities by authorising the supply of cereals to all the economic operators concerned. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof, (6)  Regulation (EC) No 9232005 should therefore be amended accordingly. Whereas: (7)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, (1) On account of weather conditions in Portugal during the 2004/05 marketing year which led to severe drought, the Commission adopted Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 (3 authorising the transfer and sale on the Portuguese market of certain quantities of cereals held by the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Hungarian intervention agency. (2 Atticle 1 of Regulation (EC) No 9232005 provides that Article 1 the transport of the products to Portugal and their Regulation (EC) No 923/2005 is amended as follows: disposal for use as animal feed must take place before 31 December 2005. 1. In Article 1(2), ‘31 December 2005’ is replaced by ‘30 April (3)  Atticle 7 of Regulation (EC) No 9232005 reserves the 2006'. sale of cereals exclusively for cattle, sheep and goat farmers’ associations or cooperatives and processing plants that have concluded cooperation contracts with those associations or cooperatives. . ) 2. In Article 7, the second paragraph is replaced by the following: (4)  Because of administrative delays in arranging the transport contract, the Portuguese authorities have ‘In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No requested the extension of the deadline for the transfer, 2131/93, the sale shall be reserved exclusively for the use sale on the Portuguese market and disposal of the of the cereals in Portugal’ products to 30 April 2006. They have also requested that sales may be extended to all the sectors concerned by the drought which affected the Portuguese agricultural economy. Article 2 ; . 0 gm?nisi;?{ éigllﬁfn(z)? (gé) 7?\}0 Reigil 1;;7(;60; * (g;lenfedl Sb;j This Regu.lation s.hal! enter into folrce on the seventh day 19.7.2005, p. 11). following its publication in the Official Journal of the European () OJ L 156, 18.6.2005, p. 8. Union.