Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

However, the second subparagraph of Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1043/2005 shall continue to apply in respect of products having obtained, with the agreement of the relevant competent authority, the assimilation referred to in that provision before 17 February 2007 and exported under cover of refund certificates for which advanced fixing, in accordance with Article 29 of that Regulation, was requested before 1 March 2007.