18.5.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 130/5 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 740/2006 of 17 May 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1063/2005 as regards the quantity covered by the standing invitation to tender for the export of common wheat held by the Czech intervention agency THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (4 The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management . o Committee for Cereals, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1784/2003 of 29 September 2003 on the common organisation of the Atticle 1 market in cereals (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof, Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1063/2005 is replaced by the following: Whereas: ‘Article 2 (1)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 10632005 () opened a standing invitation to tender for the export of The invitation to tender shall cover a maximum of 513 269 395911 tonnes of common wheat held by the Czech tonnes of common wheat for export to third countries with intervention agency. the exception of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Liech- tenstein, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (*) and Swit- (2)  The Czech Republic has informed the Commission of its serland. intervention  agency’s intention to increase by 117 358 tonnes the quantity put out to tender for export. In view of the quantities available and the market situation, the request made by the Czech Republic should be granted. (*) including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999. Article 2 (3)  Regulation (EC) No 1063/2005 should therefore be This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi- amended. cation 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 May 2006. For the Commission Mariann FISCHER BOEL Member of the Commission () O] L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 78. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1154/2005 (O] L 187, 19.7.2005, p. 11). () OJ L 174, 7.7.2005, p. 36. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EQ) No 470/2006 (O] L 84, 23.3.2006, p. 3).