Article 1

Save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation, Articles 34 to 42 of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 shall apply to the import of a quantity of 9 958,6 tonnes of butter for the year 2007 under quota number 09.4182 referred to in Annex III.A to that Regulation.

By way of derogation from Article 34a(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001, licence applications may be lodged only during the first 10 days of September 2007.

For the purposes of application of this Regulation, the available quantity referred to in Article 34a(4)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001 shall be 9 958,6 tonnes.

Import licences issued under this Regulation shall be valid until 31 December 2007.

By way of derogation from Article 35 of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001, the security referred to in Article 15(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000^f1 shall be EUR 10 per 100 kilograms net of product.

By way of derogation from the third paragraph of Article 35b of Regulation (EC) No 2535/2001, box 20 of the licences shall show one of the entries listed in the Annex to this Regulation.