Article 1

In Annex I to Directive 90/642/EEC in category ‘2. Vegetables, fresh or uncooked, frozen or dry, (iii) Fruiting vegetables, (a) Solanacea’, the entry ‘okra’ is added between the entries ‘aubergine’ and ‘others’.

Article 2

Part A of Annex II to Directive 86/362/EEC is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Directive.

Article 3

Part B of Annex II to Directive 86/363/EEC is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Directive.

Article 4

Part A of Annex II to Directive 90/642/EEC is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Directive.

Article 5

1

Member States shall adopt and publish, by 14 September 2006 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from 15 September 2006.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2

Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 6

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 7

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 March 2006.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission