Article 2

By way of derogation from Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 595/2004, the Commission may authorise the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia, for a period ending 31 March 2007 at the latest, on the basis of duly justified requests, to use the national average milk yield instead of the average milk yield per cow representative of the herd.